The author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the American Irish Foundation during 1973/4 when he was recipient of their annual Literary Award.
Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following where some of these poems appeared for the first time: Antaeus, The Arts in Ireland, Causeway (BBC Radio 3), Encounter, Exile, Hibernia, The Irish Press, The Irish Times, Irish University Review, James Joyce Quarterly, The Listener, The New Review, Phoenix, The Times Literary Supplement; and to the editors of the following anthologies: The Faber Book of Irish Verse, New Poems 1972–1973 and New Poems 1973–1974 (Hutchinson), and Soundings '72 (Blackstaff, Belfast).
Eight of the poems appeared in a limited edition entitled Bog Poems (Rainbow Press).
