One Thousand Nights and Counting
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‘The Sarajevo Zoo’, ‘The People’s Cinema’, ‘The Sightseers’,
‘The Wish’
From Moon Country (Faber, 1996)
‘A Low God on Krafla’
From Crye (Metronome Recordings, 1997)
‘Someone at the Door’
Acknowledgements
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications, in which some of these poems originally appeared:
Agenda, Agni, Atlantic Monthly, Bostonia, Fulcrum, The Guardian, Illuminations, The Independent, The London Review of Books, The Manhattan Review, Matrix, Metre, The New Criterion, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, The Observer, Open City, Oxford Poetry, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poetry With an Edge (Bloodaxe, 1988), Rattapallax, The Rialto, Sibila, Stand, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Trafika and Verse.
The poems from Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun were first published in After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, ed. Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun (Faber/FSG 1994).
‘Someone at the Door’ was first published in conjunction with the recording Crye by Concordia (Metronome 1997).
ALSO BY GLYN MAXWELL
Poetry
Tale of the Mayor’s Son
Out of the Rain
Rest for the Wicked
The Breakage
The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990–95
Time’s Fool
The Nerve
The Sugar Mile
Hide Now
Plays
Plays One: The Lifeblood, Wolfpit,
The Only Girl in the World
Plays Two: Broken Journey, Best Man Speech,
The Last Valentine
The Forever Waltz
Liberty
Mimi and the Stalker
Libretti
The Lion’s Face
Travelogue
Moon Country (with Simon Armitage)
Fiction
Blue Burneau
The Girl Who Was Going To Die
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