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Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize. ‘The Law of Primogeniture’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2008; sections 3, 4, 13 and 19 of ‘The Storm House’ were nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2009. Priest Skear was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2010. The World Before Snow was shortlisted for the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize. ‘The World’s First Photograph’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2017. Thirty of the poems included in this book can be heard on the National Poetry Archive, www.poetryarchive.org Thank you to Jennifer Militello for shaking up all my preconceptions into a new order. xii Arcimboldo’s Bulldog
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The question whether our minds are instruments of knowledge, and, if so, in what sense, is so vital that any suggested analysis of mind must be examined in relation to this question. To ignore this question would be like describing a chronometer without regard to its accuracy as a time-keeper, or a thermometer without mentioning the fact that it measures temperature. Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind, 1922

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Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006 and shortlisted for the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize. ‘The Law of Primogeniture’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2008; sections 3, 4, 13 and 19 of ‘The Storm House’ were nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2009. Priest Skear was the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Winter 2010. The World Before Snow was shortlisted for the 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize. ‘The World’s First Photograph’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, November 2017.

Thirty of the poems included in this book can be heard on the National Poetry Archive, www.poetryarchive.org

Thank you to Jennifer Militello for shaking up all my preconceptions into a new order.

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