To the various publications in which some of the material on this website first appeared: the Financial Times, the Independent on Sunday, The Economist, The London Library Magazine, Winter 2009 (‘Poetry’s Disunited Kingdom’ by Carol Rumens), The Tablet.

‘The Flickering Dark’ by John Mole is an extended version of a talk he gave at ‘Poetry and Film,’ an event hosted by Poet in the City at King’s Place, London N1 on 2 November 2009. Martyn Crucefix’s reflections on education were firstbroadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 8 December, 2008. The article by James Harpur on poetry and painting was first published in the Cork Literary Review.

To the Vincent Van Gogh Museum and the Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam for images of works by Vincent Van Gogh. To the Ben Uri Gallery for images of work by Isaac Rosenberg. To Suhrkamp Verlag for permission to reproduce some  letters by Bertolt Brecht.