NOTES

Précis, Pirate Music and It (34-37)

These poems take their inspiration from episodes narrated in Leviathan or The Whale by Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate, 2009).

 

After Keith Douglas (47)

‘Poetry is like a man, whom thinking you know all his movements and appearance you will presently come upon in such a posture that for a moment you can hardly believe it a position of the limbs you know’ (Keith Douglas, ‘On the Nature of Poetry’).

 

Found (65)

In interview for the Storyville documentary The Disappeared (BBC One, Northern Ireland, 4 November 2013) about the people killed and secretly buried by the IRA, Jean McConville’s daughter said that she had seen the location of her mother’s shallow grave in a dream.