Also by Alan Spence
Fiction
Its Colours They Are Fine
The Magic Flute
Stone Garden
Way to Go
The Pure Land
Poetry
Glasgow Zen
Seasons of the Heart
Clear Light
Still with Alison Watt
Morning Glory with Dame Elizabeth Blackadder
Plays
Sailmaker
Space Invaders
On the Line
Changed Days
The 3 Estaites
NIGHT
BOAT
A ZEN NOVEL
ALAN
SPENCE
CANONGATE
Edinburgh • London
Published in Great Britain in 2013 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2013 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Alan Spence, 2013
The moral right of the author has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on
request from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 85786 852 7
ePub ISBN 978 0 85786 853 4
Typeset in Baskerville MT by Palimpsest Book Production Ltd,
Falkirk, Stirlingshire
To the memory of
Sri Chinmoy
(1931 – 2007)
with eternal gratitude
Contents
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