00.Acknowledgments

The Cygnet school magazine where my writing first saw public light

Chris Shepherd the teacher whose passion for literature was inspiring

Geoffrey Holloway poet and mentor, who saved me from defeat

Norman Nicholson who took the time

M. G. who taught me lessons I have never forgotten, and at some cost.

Janni Howker some of whose early poems I published

Nick Dowson friend of the long retreat and to whom Epitaph was written

Angela Locke Teacher who got me going again

Kurt Tidmore who found the best in what I wrote

Marilyn Messenger who wrote with me for a while

Anne Macdonald of Pewter Rose Press

Unbound Press who gave Kowalski his moment

Patricia Oxley who put my poems in Acumen

Howard Sergeant who put me in a PEN anthology

Nick Pemberton who gave me a job

Tom Pow who struggled with me

Editors at Southlight, The Blue Nib, .Cent magazine, Borderless Journal and many others

Writing buddies Owain Lewis and Diamond Dave Wonfor

And all the others who helped along the way and of whom there are so many.

And Deryn who put up with such a lot of it.