Thank you to the editors of the following publications in which some of the poems, or versions of them, have appeared: Landfall, Otago Daily Times, takahē, Poetry New Zealand, JAAM, New Zealand Poet Laureate blog, Stand Magazine, The Rialto, Shot Glass Journal and Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems (edited by Philip Temple and Emma Neale).
Thank you also to Creative New Zealand for a Quick Response Grant received in 2017. I am immensely grateful to the Robert Burns Fellowship Selection Committee for awarding me the fellowship in 2018.
My heartfelt thanks to my dedicatees Jane Duran and Alison Rutherford, and also Alison Glenny, for reading and considering the poems at various times, to Vincent O’Sullivan for his kindness and good craic. Very little would have been possible without the love and support of friends and family; my thanks to Lynley Edmeades, Laurence Fearnley, Bernadette Hall, Maia Mistral and Kate Vercoe; my brothers Patrick and Daniel Gallagher; Tracy Gallagher, Ella, Josh and Molly. Abiding love and thanks to Sonja Mitchell.