Contents:
5 Ross Leckie: Editorial
7 Al Purdy: Photograph, Poem
9 Laurence Hutchman: An Interview with Al Purdy
20 Robert Kroetsch: Reading Solecki Reading Purdy: A Digressive Review
"The mobile of the country is made from real parts"
27 Brian Bartlett: Four Poems from Talking to the Birds
31 J.V. Mackowski: Two Poems
35 Don McKay: Four Poems
40 Michael deBeyer: Four Poems
44 Lynn Davies: Four Poems from Composing Winter
48 Anne Simpson: Four Poems
52 Michael Crummey: Four Poems
56 Stephanie Bolster: Four Poems
60 Carole Langille: Three Poems
64 James Longenbach: Two Poems
"Home to the rushes at the river's edge"
69 Alison Pick: Leo's Lullaby
70 Christopher Weagle: Two Poems
72 Sue Wheeler: Four Poems
76 Patricia Young: Our Slovenly Ways
77 Aislinn Hunter: The Burning Ground
78 Betsy Struthers: Two Poems
80 Olga Costopoulos: Hand Poems
83 Steve McOrmond: Two Poems
85 Jay Ruzesky: Two Poems
87 Liliane Welch: Two Poems
89 Anne Compton: Three Poems
"A great house reduced to its form"
95 Carla Hartsfield: Two Poems
97 Roger Nash: Two Poems
99 Derk Wynand: Two Poems
101 Shawna Lemay: Two Poems
104 Bert Almon: Two Poems
107 John Reibetanz: Two Poems
111 A.F. Moritz: Three Poems
115 John Donlon: Bushed
117 Allan Garshowitz: Three Poems
"I create the weather I imagine"
123 Thomas O'Grady: Three Poems
126 Craig Poile: Two Poems
130 Elise Partridge: Three Poems
134 Carmine Starnino: Three Poems
138 Eric Ormsby: Three Poems
142 David Solway: Three Poems
146 Norm Sibum: What Was Said to the Waitress about Davie
149 M. Travis Lane: Two Poems
152 David Manicom: Two Poems
"The whole house sleeps while waking"
157 Veronica Gaylie: Overloaf
158 Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen: Three Poems
161 Douglas Barbour: Four breath ghazals
165 Andy Weaver: Rembrandt in love
167 Barbara Colebrook Peace: Old Donkey, Scarborough Beach
168 Susan McCaslin: Chiasmus
169 Katy Ellis: The Wedding of Cecyl and Otter
170 Susan Stenson: Two Poems
172 Shane Rhodes: Clytaemnestra
175 Richard Lemm: Passed Into Spirit
"In the language of local economies"
181 Marlene Cookshaw: Four Poems
185 Eric Miller: Two Poems
189 Jan Zwicky: Four Poems
193 Adam Dickinson: Three Poems
196 Tim Lilburn: A Gloss on To the River
200 matt robinson: Three Poems
203 James McCorkle: Three Poems
208 Karen Solie: Four Poems
212 John Barton: Frieze
214 Sue Sinclair: Two Poems
Reviews
219 Robert Gibbs: Our Milton: Radical and Rooted
Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger, Richard Lemm
222 David Creelman: Seeking Private Nowlan
If I could turn and meet myself: The Life of Alden Nowlan, Patrick Toner
224 Sue Sinclair: Looking for Home: Books by Tim Lilburn
To the River and
Living in the World as if it Were Home, Tim Lilburn
227 Ken Babstock: Lift, Drag, Glide and Hover
Another Gravity, Don McKay
231 Lynn Davies: Yearning for Drama
A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway, Jeanette Lynes
234 A.F. Moritz: Here is elsewhere, elsewhere is here
Song of the Vulgar Starling, Eric Miller
238 Margo Wheaton: Beneath the Body's Thin Surfaces
Light Falls Through You, Anne Simpson
242 Sue Sinclair: In A Room the Colour of Flesh
Under the Abdominal Wall, Sharon McCartney
245 Barbara Colebrook Peace: Astonishing Feats of Levitation
Double Somersaults, Marlene Cookshaw
248 Lance Callahan: Poetry Neither Beheaded Nor Un-torsoed
The Asparagus Feast, S.P. Zitner
251 Notes on Contributors
Cover
Freeman Patterson
House in Kolmanskop, southern Namibia.
From Odyssey: Meditations and Thoughts for a Life's Journey
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