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Christopher Logue, ‘Gone Ladies’ copyright © the Estate of Christopher Logue. Reproduced by kind permission of the Estate of Christopher Logue.
John Berryman, ‘Dream Song 90: Op. posth. no. 13’, or ‘On the Death of Randall Jarrell’, from Collected Poems: 1937–1971. Copyright © 1989 by Kate Donahue Berryman. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus, Giroux, LLC. Introduction to ‘Dream Song 90’ copyright © A. Alvarez, 1999. Reproduced by kind permission of the author.
Hayden Carruth, ‘Essay’, from Brothers, I Loved You All: Poems 1969–1977, ©1978, Hayden Carruth. Reprinted by permission of the Sheep Meadow Press.
Peter Porter, ‘An Exequy’, from Collected Poems, copyright © the Estate of Peter Porter. Reproduced by permission of the Estate c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.
John N. Morris, ‘For Julia, in the Deep Water’ from The Glass Houses. Reprinted by kind permission of the Estate of John N. Morris.
W. S. Graham: ‘Dear Bryan Wynter’, from New Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 2004), © the Estate of W. S. Graham, reprinted by permission of Rosalind Mudaliar, Administrator for the Estate of W. S. Graham.
Wendell Berry, ‘A Meeting’, from New Collected Poems, copyright © 2012 by Wendell Berry. Used by permission of Counterpoint.
Charles Bukowski, ‘eulogy to a hell of a dame’ from The Pleasures Of The Damned. Copyright © 2007, Linda Lee Bukowski. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Derek Walcott, ‘Sonnet XLIII’ and ‘Love After Love’, from Midsummer, from Collected Poems 1948–1984. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Mary Oliver, ‘In Blackwater Woods’, from American Primitive. Copyright © 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 by Mary Oliver. By permission of Little, Brown and Company. All rights reserved.
John Berger, extract from and our faces, my heart, brief as photos. Copyright © 1984 by John Berger. Used by permission of the Wylie Agency and Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Douglas Dunn, ‘Sandra’s Mobile’, from Elegies. Reproduced by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and United Agents on behalf of Douglas Dunn.
Mauricio Rosencof, ‘Brindis Con El Viejo’, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Translation copyright © 2014, Margaret Jull Costa. Extract of the book Memorias del calabozo, Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, Montevideo 1987–88. © Mauricio Rosencof 1987. By arrangement with Literarische Agentur Mertin Inh. Nicole Witt e. K., Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Bei Dao, ‘An End or A Beginning’, translated by Bonnie S. McDougall, from The August Sleepwalker, copyright ©1988 by Bei Dao. Translation copyright © 1988, 1990 by Bonnie S. McDougall. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp and Anvil Press Poetry Ltd.
Adrienne Rich, Part Ten of ‘Eastern War Time’, from An Atlas Of The Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991. Copyright © 1991 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
James Wright, ‘A Blessing’, from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1971, James Wright. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Harold Pinter, ‘It Is Here’, from Various Voices. Copyright © 1998 by Harold Pinter. Used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd and Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.
James Fenton, ‘For Andrew Wood’, from Out of Danger, copyright © James Fenton, 1994. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of the author.
John Updike, ‘Not Cancelled Yet’, from Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism, edited by Christopher Carduff. Copyright © 2011 by the Estate of John H. Updike. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd and Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Brian Patten, ‘Armada’ copyright © Brian Patten, 1996. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London NW1 0JG.
William Matthews, ‘A Poetry Reading at West Point’ rom After All: Last Poems. Copyright ©1998 by the Estate of William Matthews. Reprinted by permission of the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Victoria Redel, ‘Bedecked’, from Swoon (University of Chicago Press). Copyright © Victoria Redel, 2003. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Billy Collins, ‘The Lanyard’, from The Trouble With Poetry: And Other Poems. Copyright © 2005, Billy Collins. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
Emily Zinnemann, ‘Regarding the home of one’s childhood, one could:’ copyright © Emily Zinnemann. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Craig Raine, ‘For Ruthie Rogers in Venice’ copyright © Craig Raine, 2010. Reprinted by kind permission of the author.
Robin Robertson, ‘Keys to the Doors’, from Hill of Doors. Copyright © Robin Robertson, 2012. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London NW1 0JG.
Mohsin Hamid’s introduction to ‘Keys to the Door’ Copyright © Mohsin Hamid, 2014.
Afterword by Nadine Gordimer: Copyright © Nadine Gordimer, 2014.