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The author is grateful to the editors of the following magazines and websites in which some of these poems, or versions of these poems, first appeared: 3am, Agenda, archiveofthenow.org, Axon, Black Herald, Eyewear, International Times, The International Literary Quarterly, Litmus, Paris Lit. Up Magazine, Poetry Wales, Stand, The Nation and The North.
āPrimitive Cultureā consists of excerpts from a collaborative poem with Sandeep Parmar entitled āMyth of the Savage Tribes, Myth of Civilised Nationsā published in Island Magazine (Australia) and also in a jointly authored pamphlet with the same title (Oystercatcher Press, 2014). āSoapboxā was originally published as āSoapbox 4ā in Soapboxes, a pamphlet by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press (2014). A version of āOn the Ordinaryā was first published in The Wolf (30), as an editorial piece.
The author also wishes to thank the Arts Council England for giving him a grant to complete this book and John Wedgwood Clarke for his editorial suggestions on the manuscript.
Cover image:
āThe Last Soundā by Ibrahim El-Salahi, by kind permission of the artist.
From the private collection of Abdul Magid Breish.
Ā© Ibrahim El-Salahi. All rights reserved, DACS 2015
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