Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following, where some of these poems appeared for the first time: Agni Review; Antaeus; Belfast Newsletter; English Review; Field; Georgia Review; Irish Times; London Review of Books; Observer; Orbis; Owl; Oxford Gazette; Oxford Poetry; Parnassus; Ploughshares; Poetry Ireland; Poetry Review; Salmagundi; Stet; Sunday Tribune; Thames Poetry; The Threepenny Review; The Times Literary Supplement; Tikkun; Translation.
The following were first published by The New Yorker: 'A Basket of Chestnuts', 'Crossings', Nos. xviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi.
A number of the poems in Part I were printed in The Tree Clock (Linen Hall Library, Belfast, 1990).