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Acknowledgements Some of these poems have appeared in PN Review, Stand and the Times Literary Supplement.Thanks for criticism and encouragement to my indefatigable editor Michael Schmidt and all at Carcanet and to Jon Glover, Robert Gray, J. J. Healy, John Lancaster, Alf Louvre, John McAuliffe, Judith Wainwright and John Whale. First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Jeffrey Wainwright 2020 The right of  Jeffrey Wainwright to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 978 1 78410 988 2 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England.
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Contents Give Me a Line The Other poem Signs of Life Spring Walk In the Arms of the Tree The Plan The Swirl The Idea This Window Again The Window-Ledge If All This Did Begin Greetings The Lake Belvedere Dreams of Lennox Road Drawing Lessons What Am I Seeing? Who Was St Chad? My Father and ‘The Onward Tendency’ Seascape (from Holly’s photograph) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 22 30 32 49 62 65 81 84

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Acknowledgements

Some of these poems have appeared in PN Review, Stand and the Times Literary Supplement.Thanks for criticism and encouragement to my indefatigable editor Michael Schmidt and all at Carcanet and to Jon Glover, Robert Gray, J. J. Healy, John Lancaster, Alf Louvre, John McAuliffe, Judith Wainwright and John Whale.

First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Jeffrey Wainwright 2020 The right of  Jeffrey Wainwright to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 978 1 78410 988 2 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon

The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England.

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