Poems included in this anthology first appeared in the following publications:

Douglas Barbour: Triptych, Fulcrum No. 1 (2002), Sit the Deer, Vision/Sounding, a folder from The League of Canadian Poets (n.d.)

Alison Croggon: The poet... Ash, Cusp Books 2006; she never cried... Theatre, Salt Publishing 2008.

Peter Howard: A Poppy was first published in The Interpreter's House and a revised version of it appears in the pamphlet Game Theory published in 2005 by Top Edge Press. An animated version of the poem is on my website and is also reproduced on the BBC website. (The animated version was used as source material by Baheja Mohammed for her 2005 MA dissertation at the University of Basra, Iraq. The Construction of the Tomahawk won second prize in the Daily Telegraph/Arvon competition in 2000 and is published in the competition anthology. It is also published in Game Theory. Strangers was first published in Oxford Magazine and is also in the collection Weighing the Air published by Arrowhead Press in 2008. The Distillation of Ink was first published in the Oxford Poets 2001 anthology by Carcanet Press in 2001. It is also in Weighing the Air, which features Peter Ciccariello's Proposed monument for poem in a room as the cover image for Weighing the Air.

Árni Ibsen's poems appear with the kind permission of Hildur Kristjánsdóttir.

Liz Kirby: No Warning in Force, Poetry Wales 45.

Rachel Loden: A Redressed Poet..., The Iowa Review; Ass, Deaf to Music, The Denver Quarterly; My Subject and Miss October, The Richard Nixon Snow Globe, Wild Honey Press.

Pierre Joris: The two Meditations will appear in the next issue of Verse.

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