Acknowledgements

Grateful thanks are due to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems, or earlier versions of them, have appeared: A Restricted View from Under the Hedge, Acumen, Agenda, Ambit, Cimarron Review (USA), Exiled Ink e-mag, Long Poem Magazine, Peony (Cam Rivers Publishing, 2019), PN Review, POEM, Poetry and Audience, Poetry International, Poetry London, Poetry Salzburg Review, Quartet (Avalanche Books, 2018), Rusted Radishes (Lebanon), Smoke, Spring of the Muses (Avalanche Books 2019), Ten Poems about Childhood (Candlestick Press, 2019), The Compass, The Hippocrates Book of the Heart (The Hippocrates Press, 2017), The Mighty Stream (Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts/Bloodaxe Books, 2017), The New Humanist, The North, The Rialto, Wasafiri, Wretched Strangers (Boiler House Press, 2018). My warmest thanks to Dr Nathalie Teitler and Dancing Words for producing the poem ‘Afterwardness’ as a poetry dance film with dancer/choreographer Ella Mesma and filmmaker Fiona Melville. https://bit.ly/2VR2rqE I would like to thank Alfred Corn, Marilyn Hacker, Aamer Hussein, Christina Patterson, Myra Schneider and her workshop group, for their generosity in reading and responding to the manuscript or to individual poems and, in particular, Jane Duran for her thoughtful, painstaking comments and Michael Schmidt for his invaluable editing.

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