First North American edition
© Alan Gillis, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-930630-80-2 (paperback)
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Library of Congress Control Number 2016941912
Cover design by Quemadura
Publication of this book was generously supported by the Boyle Family Fund.
Acknowledgments: This volume is a compendium of poems written from 2000 to 2014.
All poems have previously been published by The Gallery Press in Ireland. The poems from “The Ulster Way” to “Progress” are taken from Somebody, Somewhere (2004); from “Lagan Weir” to “Laganside” from Hawks and Doves (2007); from “Eloquence” to “from Here Comes the Night” from Here Comes the Night (2010); and from “August in Edinburgh” to “The Sweeping” from Scapegoat (2014). Many thanks to Peter Fallon.
