Lines from If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho © Anne Carson (trans), used with kind permission of Aragi, Inc.
Line from a personal letter © Alice Hoffman, used with kind permission of Alice Hoffman.
The poem ‘Seeds’, which appears on page 260, is drawn from Ali Cobby Eckermann’s collection of verse Inside My Mother (Giramondo, 2015), and is included with full permission of the author.
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