The publishers would like to express their thanks to the copyright holders for permission to reprint from the following:
‘Still-Life’ by Elizabeth Daryush, Selected Poems, 1985, Carcanet Press Limited; ‘To a Snail’ by Marianne Moore, The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore, 1984, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Considering the Snail’ by Thom Gunn, My Sad Captains, 1993, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Revenge Fable’ by Ted Hughes, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1972, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘The Snow Man’ by Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems, 1955, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘The Widow’s Lament in Springtime’ by William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems, 1994, Carcanet Press Limited; ‘Ghosts’ by Peter Redgrove, The Moon Disposes, 1987, Seeker and Warburg; ‘My Cats’ by Stevie Smith, The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith. Copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Group and Penguin 20th Century Classics/James MacGibbon; ‘In the village pond…’ by James Kirkup, Shooting Stars, 1992, Hub Editions; ‘In a Station of the Metro’ by Ezra Pound, Collected Shorter Poems, 1968, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Siesta of a Hungarian Snake’ by Edwin Morgan, Collected Poems, 1990, Carcanet Press Limited; ‘Paid on both sides’ by W.H.Auden, Collected Poems, 1976, ed. Edward Mendelson, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Gerontion, ‘The Waste Land’ and ‘Little Gidding’ by T.S.Eliot, Collected Poems 1909–1962, 1974, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Crossings xxxvi’ by Seamus Heaney, Seeing Things, 1991, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney, Station Island, 1984, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Lady Lazarus’ by Sylvia Plath, Ariel, 1968, Faber & Faber Ltd; ‘Sonnet: To Eva by Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, edited with an introduction by Ted Hughes, 1981, Faber & Faber Ltd.
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