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Authors: Alan; Sillitoe

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Sillitoe in Berlin while on a reading tour in 1976.

Sillitoe sitting at his desk in his flat, located in Notting Hill Gate, London, 1978.

Sillitoe writing at his desk in Wittersham in the 1970s or '80s.

Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight at the PEN conference in Tokyo, Japan, 1984. They both gave readings at the conference, and Sillitoe was a keynote speaker, along with Joseph Heller.

Sillitoe standing on the porch of his wife's apartment in Nashville, Tennessee. He visited Ruth while she was a poet-in-residence at Vanderbilt University in January of 1985.

Sillitoe (right) in Calais, France, with Jacques Darras (center), a French poet and essayist, August of 1991.

Sillitoe in front of his and Fainlight's Somerset cottage with his friends, American poet Shirley Kaufman and Israeli literary critic and academic H. M. “Bill” Daleski.

Sillitoe on holiday in Penang, Malaya, in 2008. Sillitoe spent time in Malaya as a radio operator for the RAF in 1948.

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Some of the poems were previously published and are taken from the following titles:
The Rats and Other Poems, A Falling Out of Love and Other Poems, Love in the Environs of Voronezh and Other Poems, Storm and Other Poems, Snow on the North Side of Lucifer, Sun Before Departure, Tides and Stone Walls.

Copyright © 1960, 1964, 1968, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1993 by Alan Sillitoe

First US edition

Cover design by Jason Gabbert

ISBN: 978-1-5040-3503-3

This edition published in 2016 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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