acknowledgements

Acknowledgements are due to the editors of: Antigonish Review, Berfrois, Cincinnati Review, Griffin on Griffin ed. Pamela Scobie, Manchester Review, The North, Plume, PN Review, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Quimera, Stand, Subtropics, The SHop, and Warwick Review. ‘Foreshortening’ was commissioned by Mark Epstein for the Age Concerns exhibition held at the University of Manchester, June 2018. A number of these poems have been influenced both conceptually and materially by two particular texts: Karl Barth’s The Epistle to the Romans, trans. Edwyn Hoskins, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968) and Albert Schweitzer’s The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, trans. William Montgomery, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). * Particular thanks are due to John McAuliffe for his meticulous editing, and to Chad Campbell, Jim Johnstone, Livi Michael, and Edmund Prestwich for their help with this volume. Additional thanks are due to: A.C. Bevan, Daniel Bosch, Adrian Bucknor, Douglas Crase, Mark Epstein, Emma Handley, Simon Haworth, Evan Jones, Steve Kendall, Sandra Lickorish, Kittima Makgomol, Mario Martín Gijón, Nicholas Murray, Frances Nagel, William Palmer, Ian Parks, Frances Sackett, Peter Sansom, Michael Schmidt, Pamela Scobie, Ruth Sharman, Mary Sullivan, Michael Vince and Chris Woods.

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