Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the editors of the following magazines and journals, where some of these poems were first published: ‘Temporary Vows’, ‘Sanity’, and ‘The Final Episode’ in Poetry Magazine; ‘Fancy Dress’ in Poetry Review; ‘The Ground’ in TLS. ‘Dive Bar’ was first published in Proud, an anthology of stories and poetry by LGBTQ+ authors.

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