Acknowledgements

Birdbook: Farmland, Heathland, Mountain and Moorland (Sidekick Books); Body; The Compass; The Dark Horse; Dear World (Frosted Fire Press); Huffington Post; Penning Perfumes (Sabotage); Poetry Archive; Poetry Review; The American Aesthetic; The Arts of Peace (Two Rivers Press); The Night of the Day (Nine Arches Press); Quadrant (Australia); The Rialto; The Tree Line: Poems for Trees, Woods and People (Worple Press); The Verb (bbc Radio 3); Wenlock Poetry Festival anthologies 2014, 2015, 2016 (Fair Acre Press); The Wolf.

‘Husbandry’, ‘Lesson Three’ and ‘Yarak’ were published in The London Review of Books.

Thanks are due to bbc Radio 5 Live for commissioning and broadcasting ‘The Crowd’; Victoria Bennett for asking me to write a poem for The Naked Muse calendar in aid of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; Liverpool University for commissioning ‘Their Son’; Poets and Players for commissioning ‘The Discovery’ to celebrate Manchester being the European City of Science for 2016.

Personal thanks to Siobhan Keenan, Ian Sansom, William Palmer and Gabriel and Edward; to Warwick University for a period of leave to help finish this book; to the Poetry Society (uk) for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry; and to Brenda Tomlinson for reading the manuscript and choosing its title.

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