Acknowledgements and notes p. 1 ‘Photographing the building is forbidden until the war is over’ Sign outside the US Consulate, Cape Town, c. 2004 p. 12 Specialised ‘Ammunition Airlift During the Relief of Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, April, 1968’: a colour photograph by Larry Burrows (originally part of a Life photo essay, on exhibition in New York, reprinted in The New Yorker). p. 14 Skypointing ‘skypointing’, ‘appeasement’, ‘gannets’ and ‘coastal colonies’ – words on a public education poster prepared by the Department of Trade and Industry. p. 20 Monument to the South African Republic (On some photographs by David Goldblatt) The photographs by David Goldblatt to which the poem refers are: ‘Memorials to two policemen shot and killed here by robbers on 3 July 2002, Whipp Street, Memel, Free State. Three men were each given two life sentences for the murders, 24 August 2005.’ ‘Monument to the Republic of South Africa 31 May 1961, Cornelia, Free State, 24 August 2005.’ ‘Memorial to two members of the African armed forces killed in what President PW Botha called the “Total Onslaught”, Villiers, Free State, 24 August 2005.’ p. 34 In the empty station ‘birds fly through the empty station’: a line that could be Tom Raworth’s, could belong to the Tom I knew for one evening in London in 1978. p. 40 Thank you Lee Smolin, thank you Mr Leibniz Lee Smolin’s book The Life of the Cosmos (Phoenix, 1997) is gratefully acknowledged. p. 95 Three meditations on Why is there war, Mummy? ‘Against the hyper-legibility of the violent act’ is quoted from André Lepecki and Jenn Joy (eds), Planes of Composition. Dance, Theory, and the Global (Seagull Books, 2009), p. XV. p. 115 Tango for person and city abrazo: embrace; salida: exit (a pattern that begins a figure); amagues: threats, 147