acknowledgements

I am grateful to the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems first appeared: The London Magazine, The Oxford Gazette, Magma, The Delinquent, PN Review, International Literary Quarterly. My thanks are due to the editors of the following anthologies, in which several of these poems were first published: Herrings: A Poetry in Aldeburgh Anthology, Mimic Octopus: an anthology of Poetic Imitation, Carcanet’s New Poetries V. ‘Migrants’ refers to events described in a film made by Sarah Wood and Helen Macdonald, Murmurations X.

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