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Notes Corona/Cuts: this crown of sonnets uses lines and images from John Donne’s ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’; ‘A Valediction of Weeping’; ‘At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow’; The good-morrow’; ‘Batter my heart, three person’d God…’; and ‘Aire and Angels’. Written in 1939, Joaquín Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ was inspired by the gardens at Palacio Real de Aranjuez. The second movement is a response to the miscarriage of his first child. Antes muerto que mudado (sooner dead than changed) is the Spanish inscription engraved on the Portrait of John Donne, aged 18 in the second edition of his Poems, printed in 1635 and then again in 1639, and held by the British Library The reasons given by teenage boys for carrying knives are taken from interviews in the Guardian newspaper and BBC news reports. Knife Angel is a sculpture made by Alfie Bradley with knives donated by police forces around the country at the British Ironworks Centre at Oswestry, Shropshire. 98
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Acknowledgements A big thank you to the editors of the magazines where some of these poems first appeared. I know the work involved in editing, so thanks to my Magma co-editors, Susannah Hart (Conversation Issue) and Raymond Antrobus (Deaf Issue) and to all the Magma team, past and present. Thank you to the Torriano Meeting House, the welcome of Sunday evenings’ open floor spots, and the Thursday Poetry Group. Thank you to my wonderful poetry tutor, Jane Draycott, at Lancaster University, and to my fellow students for their help, friendship and support. Thank you to Michael Schmidt and Andrew Latimer for their editorial guidance and to all the Carcanet team for their help during the process of putting this book together and beyond. Thank you to Jim, Lottie, Dane, Linda, Jimmy, Simon, Nyra and Emma for being there. ‘Aubade for an Artist’ was published in Under the Radar, Summer 2016 ‘Life Model’ was published in Long Poem Magazine, Issue 11 ‘Six Perspectives on Lilian Kjærulff ’ was published in Ambit, Issue 215; and by And Other Poems ‘A&E’ was published in The Spectator ‘Death Certificate, Burnt Oak’ was published in the anthology The Book of Love and Loss; and by Culture Matters ‘The Shadow Cast’ was published in Ambit, Issue 220 ‘Ø’ was published in The Interpreter’s House, #56 ‘This is not a Road Trip’ was published in South Bank Poetry, issue 28 ‘A Desultory Day’ was published in The Rialto, Issue 85 ‘Trailing Spouse’ was published in Ambit, Issue, 229 99

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Corona/Cuts: this crown of sonnets uses lines and images from John Donne’s ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’; ‘A Valediction of Weeping’; ‘At the round earth’s imagin’d corners, blow’; The good-morrow’; ‘Batter my heart, three person’d God…’; and ‘Aire and Angels’. Written in 1939, Joaquín Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ was inspired by the gardens at Palacio Real de Aranjuez. The second movement is a response to the miscarriage of his first child. Antes muerto que mudado (sooner dead than changed) is the Spanish inscription engraved on the Portrait of John Donne, aged 18 in the second edition of his Poems, printed in 1635 and then again in 1639, and held by the British Library The reasons given by teenage boys for carrying knives are taken from interviews in the Guardian newspaper and BBC news reports. Knife Angel is a sculpture made by Alfie Bradley with knives donated by police forces around the country at the British Ironworks Centre at Oswestry, Shropshire.

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