With thanks to the following publications where a number of these poems, or earlier versions of them, have been published: The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt Publishing, 2013), Best Friends Forever (The Emma Press, 2014), BODY, BroadCast, CAST: The Poetry Business Book of New Contemporary Poets (2014), For Every Year, Iota, Jarg Magazine, The Manchester Review, Modern Poets on Viking Poetry: A cultural translation project for Cambridge University, Poetry & Audience, Poetry London, The Poetry Paper (Aldeburgh Poetry Festival), Poetry Wales, The Quietus, The Rialto, The Salt Anthology of New Writing (Salt Publishing, 2013), Smiths Knoll, and What We Heard from the Sea: An Anthology (Nightbird Press, 2014). Some poems also appeared in a pamphlet, little armoured, published by Seren in 2012.
With love and thanks to Mum, Dad, Mark and Ross; to Manchester’s Centre for New Writing class of 2007-08, particularly Xiena Saeed, Jason Lee Norman, Matt Munday and Laura Webb (my soup sister); to the Poetry Trust; to John McAuliffe and Roddy Lumsden; to Crispin Best, Amy Key and, most of all, to Alex MacDonald.