I have quoted from many writers and poets in these pages and am extremely grateful to all the copyright holders who allowed me to use their words. I made strenuous efforts to secure permissions (reluctantly jettisoning some favourites) and apologise if there are any omissions or mistakes. Please get in touch if so! You’ll find most of the sources in the Select Bibliography, but I would also like to acknowledge the following:
Lines from ‘Praise of a Man’ © 1990 Norman MacCaig, from Collected Poems, published by Chatto & Windus. Reproduced by permission of the estate of Norman MacCaig.
Extract from Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood, Copyright © 1988 by O. W. Toad, Ltd. Used in the UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada, by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Used in the United States by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Reprinted in Canada by permission of Emblem/McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. All rights reserved.
Extracts from Enid Blyton reproduced by permission of Hodder Children’s Books, an imprint of Hachette Children’s Books, Carmelite House, 50 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DZ.
Extracts from The Living Stones by Ithell Colquhoun, 1957, reproduced by permission of Peter Owen Publishers, UK.
Extracts from The Journey Through Wales/The Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis, trans. Lewis Thorpe © the Estate of Lewis Thorpe, 1978, published by Penguin Classics.
Lines from ‘Welsh Landscape’ © R. S. Thomas, first published by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, 1973, published in Selected Poems 1946–1968 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1986.
Extract from ‘Buffalo Bill’s’, Copyright 1923, 1951, © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1976 by George James Firmage, from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Extracts from Bright Day Copyright © 1946 by J. B. Priestley, renewed 1974. Quoted with permission of Valancourt Books. Extracts from English Journey, 1933, by J. B. Priestley quoted with permission and published by Great Northern Books, PO Box 1380, Bradford BD5 5FB.
Extracts from English Journey, Copyright © 1983 by Beryl Bainbridge, reprinted by permission of Johnson and Alcock Literary Agency, Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA.
Extracts from Beyond a Boundary, Copyright © 1963 by C. L. R. James reprinted by permission of Yellow Jersey Press.
Extracts from A Passage to England, Copyright © 1959 by Nirad Chaudhuri, published by Macmillan & Co.
Extracts from Beggars on Horseback: A Riding Tour in North Wales by E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross, first published by William Blackwood & Sons, 1895.