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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements are due to the editors of: NW 14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14 (Granta Books and the British Council, 2006), Parameter, PN Review, Poetry London, The Bridport Prize Anthology 2004 (Sansom and Company), Signs and Humours: The Poetry of Medicine (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007) and to the Guardian feature ‘Exit Wounds’, 25 July 2009. Thank you. Thanks also to the Nes Artists Residency in Iceland, and the people of Skagaströnd for their kindness and hospitality, and the opportunity to spend a month on their beautiful peninsula. Acknowledgements and thanks to Jenni Molloy, composer and musician, who collaborated with me in adapting the Malarchy sequence into a performance piece. Also to Sheila Tilmouth, artist and photographer, for the cover photo. Thanks to Lynn Alderson, Zetta Bear, Ruth Bowen, Stephanie Bowgett, John Duffy, Mair Felix, Sheila Kershaw, Anne Landsman, Olwen May, Chris Preddle and all the members of the Albert Poetry Workshop for their encouragement, careful reading, and invaluable feedback. To Lyn Romeo and Linda Anderson for lending me their peaceful homes to write in. To the editors of Carcanet, Michael Schmidt and Judith Willson, my thanks and appreciation. Lastly, I am grateful to the poet Linda Chase. I remember with thanks her generosity, comradeship and open-hearted encouragement.
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Contents Part I: Cusp I watch the bees slow down the summer Afterwards Julia’s Party After the Funeral The Running Light of Stones Cusp Hold on to the sky Vernal Easter The Lamb he did sing Smiling for the Camera Making Peace Dreaming the Dead Letters from the Peninsula The Colour of Lilac Inquiry Turn Ending Possessions News Owl Ear Assassin Crocodile Disembarking from the 8.09 Physician Moving House The Assistant’s Confession Faith Benjamin’s Pool 11 12 14 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 29 30 35 37 39 41 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53

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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements are due to the editors of: NW 14: The Anthology of New Writing, Volume 14 (Granta Books and the British Council, 2006), Parameter, PN Review, Poetry London, The Bridport Prize Anthology 2004 (Sansom and Company), Signs and Humours: The Poetry of Medicine (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007) and to the Guardian feature ‘Exit Wounds’, 25 July 2009. Thank you.

Thanks also to the Nes Artists Residency in Iceland, and the people of Skagaströnd for their kindness and hospitality, and the opportunity to spend a month on their beautiful peninsula.

Acknowledgements and thanks to Jenni Molloy, composer and musician, who collaborated with me in adapting the Malarchy sequence into a performance piece. Also to Sheila Tilmouth, artist and photographer, for the cover photo.

Thanks to Lynn Alderson, Zetta Bear, Ruth Bowen, Stephanie Bowgett, John Duffy, Mair Felix, Sheila Kershaw, Anne Landsman, Olwen May, Chris Preddle and all the members of the Albert Poetry Workshop for their encouragement, careful reading, and invaluable feedback.

To Lyn Romeo and Linda Anderson for lending me their peaceful homes to write in.

To the editors of Carcanet, Michael Schmidt and Judith Willson, my thanks and appreciation.

Lastly, I am grateful to the poet Linda Chase. I remember with thanks her generosity, comradeship and open-hearted encouragement.

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