Thanks are due to the editors of the following in which poems appeared: Ambit, Hic et Nunc (Poetry on the Lake), Long Poem Magazine, New Walk, New Welsh Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Reader, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Rialto, Seam, South Bank Poetry, The Stinging Fly, The Times Literary Supplement and Warwick Review.
‘The Apple Farmers’ Calendar’ was selected for Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt, ed. Roddy Lumsden). ‘Colour Beginnings’ and ‘Emergency Landing’ were first published in Bedford Square 2 (John Murray, 2007, ed. Andrew Motion).
‘After the Ban’ won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize in 2008, a generous award which enabled me to complete my PhD. I am also grateful to Simon Trewin and the late Pat Kavanagh for the PFD Student Award to study at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2006/7.
Special thanks are due to Jo Shapcott, Andrew Motion, Stephen Knight and Greta Stoddart; to readers of poems at an early stage: Fiona Moore, Helen Adie, Rupert Christiansen and Greg Penoyre; to Christopher Le Brun for suggesting a painting for the cover; and to my editor at Oxford Poets, Iain Galbraith.