of jouissance in Canto xx). The poem was written for Evan Parker’s cd, but would like to remember the late Bill Griffiths, one of the few poets writing in English who could rival Arnaut Daniel for complexity and breadth of inventiveness. acknowledgements I owe my principal debt of thanks to Tony Baker and the late Richard Caddel, my first friends in the world of poetry (and outside it, too, importantly); and to Billy Mills and Catherine Walsh, who offered me the chance of book-publication at a point when I was about to turn my energies to other things. More recently I am indebted to Peter Manson, who nagged at me for years to consider the notion of a Selected Poems (and later was of direct practical assistance); and in the recent past to Luke Allan, for acting, independently, on Peter’s suggestion; and finally to Elizabeth James, for sterling, sometimes stern, advice, and much hard graft helping me get this book into shape. I have been at some pains to give as full an account as I could of my small participation in the wide web of small presses and little magazines that throughout the 1980s and on were of immense importance in supporting a wide range of writers and writing over a long period of time when outlets of more notional consequence took little or no interest. For prior publication (or major involvement therein) thanks are due to David Aldridge; David Annwn (in his own right and with Frances Presley and Peterjon & Yasmin Skelt); David Ashford; Tim Atkins; Kevin Bailey; Tony Baker; Jeffery Beam; Andrea Brady; Henrietta Brougham, Christopher Fox & Ian Pace; Rodger Brown; the late Richard Caddel (in his own right and with Ann Caddel and with Peter Quartermain); Maoilios Caimbeul; Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover; Adrian Clarke & Lawrence Upton; Bob Cobbing ; David Connearn; Martin Corless-Smith ; Sara Crangle & Sam Ladkin; Bill Culbert; Simon Cutts & Erica Van Horn; Andrew Duncan (with Tim Allen, and with Charles Bainbridge); Alec Finlay ; the late Ian Hamilton Finlay; Allen Fisher; John Goodby & Lyndon Davies; Terrel Hale; Robert Hampson; Tom Jenks & James Davies; Andrew Lawson & Anthony Mellors; Rupert Loydell; Steve McLaughlin & Jim Carpenter (reproduced by kind permission); Peter Manson; Roy Miki; Billy Mills & Catherine Walsh; Peter Mortimer; Alec Newman & Scott Thurston; Rich Owens; Ian Pace; Andrew Parkinson, Duncan McLean & Alistair Peebles; the late Evangeline Paterson; Alistair Peebles (in his own right); Bridget Penney & Paul Holman; Helen Petts; Robin Purves & Peter Manson; Peter Quartermain (in his own right, and

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