Ghostwritten

Acknowledgments

The two poems in ‘The Holy Mountain’ are by Taneda Santoko, translated by John Stevens in Mountain Tasting (John Weatherhill, Tokyo, 1980). The folk stories in ‘Mongolia’ are based on tales from How Did the Great Bear Originate? edited by Professor Choi Luvsanjav, and translated by Damdinsurengyn Altangerel (State Publishing House, Ulan Bator, 1987). ‘Mongolia’ is also indebted to The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia by Nick Middleton (Phoenix, 1992). Gambling statistics in Part 4 of London are from Easy Money by David Spanier (Oldcastle Books, 1995). A short extract from W.B. Yeats’ ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, published in W.B. Yeats: Selected Poetry (Penguin), is used in ‘London’ and ‘Clear Island’ with A.P. Watt’s permission on behalf of the estate of W.B. Yeats.

Thank you to Michael Shaw, Jonathan Pegg, Tibor Fischer, Neil Taylor, Sarah Ballard, Alexandra Heminsley, Myrna Blumberg, Elizabeth Poynter, David Koerner, Ian Willey and Jan Montefiore.