Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems first appeared: Being Human (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), Blackbird, HQ, London Magazine, Magma, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry London, Poetry Review and Poetry Wales.
The epigraph by Alexis Nouss is from Paul Celan: les lieux d’un déplacement (éditions Le Bord de l’eau, 2010), 27.