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Acknowledgments
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to quote from their work:
Katarina Arghelaki-Rooke
Leonard Cohen
Nick Green
Steve Sanfield
Paul Surman
As well as those who have generously given permission for quotation from their work, I am very grateful to others who have helped me in various indispensable ways, some of whose names appear below:
Barbara Lapek
Kelsey Edwards
Sarah Sparks
Bruce Walter
Antony Green
Liz Maguire
Harriet Edwards
William Pownall
Janet McGiffin
Geoff Holdsworth
Rowland Bongard
Julie Brennan
Alison Gold
Megan Hustad
David Fagan
Neville Shack
Tina Bennett
Theo Triantafyllou
Christina Vlachoutsikou
Elizabeth Joyce
Katerina Andritsopoulou
Gordon Grange
Aghios Tychon
About the Author
Roger Green is an English poet living on the Greek island of Hydra. Among his publications are several books of poetry, including Wolvercote Dreaming, assisted by a grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain. Notes from Overground by Tiresias, subtitled A Commuter’s Notebook, saw the light in 1984. His translation of The Akathistos Hymn by Romanos the Melodist was published by The Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1987. A further collection of poetry, With It Or On It, appeared in 2000.