CKNOWLEDGEMENTS First published in Odyssey Calling (Sad Press, 2020): ‘Holy Island’ appeared in Cambridge Literary Review 12 (2020). ‘In Praise of Birds’ is a response to the memory of improvising for Caroline Bergvall’s ‘Conference (After Sweeney)’ at the International Literary Festival in Dublin (May 2019).‘Odyssey Response’ was commissioned by the actor Christopher Kent and pianist Gamal Khamis for their narrative recital Odyssey – words and music of finding home, premiered in November 2019. ‘Windrush Reflections’ was commissioned by Poet in the City and the British Library for Collections in Verse. A response to Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land and the communities of South Leeds. Inspiration for ‘Windrush Lineage’: Mahadai Das, A Leaf in His Ear: Selected Poems (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2010). Sources for ‘Caribbean Cento’: collage of Lord Kitchener; Lord Beginner; British Nationality Act 1948; Andrew Marr and Theresa May, 30/09/2018 interview, BBC transcript; Wilson Harris; Una Marson; V.S. Naipaul; Samuel Selvon; Michael Smith. Sources for ‘Windrush Leeds Cento’: collage of original material by participants in events in Leeds. Thanks to Jo Lindsay Walton and Samantha Walton of Sad Press. First published in Light Site (Periplum, 2020): ‘Cité de Lumière: Light Site’ was written for Zoë Skoulding, for inclusion in English: Journal of the English Association, spring 2020. ‘Sweetheart! Is So You Stop?’ was originally published in an earlier version in 2020 by Roof Books in the volume Queenzenglish.mp3: poetry | philosophy | performativity, edited by Kyoo Lee, containing short pieces by 50 writers from around the world on the topic of standards in writing and their effect on freedom of expression and creativity. QE3 101