First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk All rights reserved Poems © The Estate of Iain Crichton Smith 2021 Editorial material © John Greening 2021 The right of John Greening to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 978 1 80017 094 0 Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon

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