Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: A Wildcat Creativity -- LEONARD ANGEL -- Jungle -- CHRISTIANNE BALK -- Elegy -- How Stories Get Started -- CAROL BOLT -- Red Emma -- ROO BORSON -- The Gift, for Robert Bringhurst -- The Transparence of November -- Wild Horses -- GEORGE BOWERING -- Endless Vees -- ROBERT BRINGHURST -- Jacob Singing -- FRANK DAVEY -- How and Why John Loves Mary -- DON DICKINSON -- Hogarth's Arrangement -- GLEN DOWNIE -- Night Light -- The Wish for a New Hand -- Worker Classification: Material Handler -- DARYL DUKE -- A Battlefield of Dreams -- KENNETH DYBA -- The River -- DAVID EVANIER -- Rockefeller Center -- MARYA FIAMENGO -- White Linen Remembered -- MICHAEL FINLAY -- Somewhere East -- DENNIS FOON -- Children's Eyes -- CATHY FORD -- moving again, jailed again -- trial, feet & hands chained -- the morning, may 30, 1431 -- ERIC FORRER -- The Sea Ice -- Chignik -- Going West, Regardless -- BILL GASTON -- Carp -- GARY GEDDES -- The Strap -- Jimmy's Place -- Names of Great Men -- KICO GONZALEZ-RISSO -- Caution: Contents under Pressure -- ELIZABETH GOURLAY -- The Excuse -- The Discipline -- Snapshot -- PAUL GREEN -- The Age of Gold -- GENNI GUNN -- On the Road -- GEOFF HANCOCK -- The Stainless Steel Streamliner -- HART HANSON -- Beautiful Boy Fades -- ROBERT HARLOW -- Felice: A Travelogue -- ERNEST HEKKANEN -- The Rite -- GLADYS HINDMARCH -- Ucluelet -- JACK HODGINS -- Earthquake -- MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH -- The House that Jack Built -- DEBBIE HOWLETT -- The Broom Closet -- ANN IRELAND -- The Doppler Effect -- SALLY IRELAND -- Lullaby -- SURJEET KALSEY -- Siddhartha Does Penance Once Again -- LIONEL KEARNS -- Ritual -- Trophy -- Birney Land -- NORMAN KLENMAN -- Woodsmen of the West -- CHARLES LILLARD -- Night Sailing -- Coastal Sanctus -- CYNTHIA MACDONALD -- Hymn in a Bed of Amherst.

Two Brothers in a Field of Absence -- KENNETH M[sup(c)]GOOGAN -- Gazette Boy -- FLORENCE M[sup(c)]NEIL -- Ghost Town -- Alice on the Train -- The Hours of the Duc de Berry -- GEORGE M[sup(c)]WHIRTER -- Five Points North of Steveston -- KIM MALTMAN -- The Technology of the Persistence of Memory -- The Technology of Metal, Turning -- The Technology of the Metal at the Heart of Sorrow -- JILL MANDRAKE -- Marilyn and the Lucky Penny -- DAPHNE MARLATT -- eating -- shrimping -- Compliments (of the camera) -- SEYMOUR MAYNE -- Trouble -- Another Son -- The Oranges of Sicily -- JENNIFER MITTON -- The Weepers -- DANIEL DAVID MOSES -- Some Grand River Blues -- Grandmother of the Glacier -- The Chain -- ERIN MOURÉ -- Margins -- Hazard of the Occupation -- Poem for Rudolf Hess on his 80th birthday (1974) -- JANE MUNRO -- Satori -- Woman Clothed by the Sun -- RONA MURRAY -- Blackberries -- When -- The foghorn -- MORGAN NYBERG -- To Margarita -- MORRIS PANYCH -- Last Call! A Post-Nuclear Cabaret -- GEORGE PAYERLE -- Wolfbane Fane -- E.G. PERRAULT -- The Cure -- KAREN PETERSEN -- Cranefly -- Satyr's Rat Soup -- PMS Rules OK -- MAIDA PRICE -- Looking for Mexico -- LINDA ROGERS -- Mile Zero -- Something Brilliant for One Hand -- Converso -- LAKE SAGARIS -- from the title poem "Circus Love" -- Let our children -- El trauco -- ANDREAS SCHROEDER -- One Tide Over -- ROBERT SHERRIN -- North by North by North -- HEATHER SPEARS -- Powell Street Bus, Vancouver -- Robert Noyes -- RICHARD STEVENSON -- New Black Shoes -- Why Does It Cry So? -- Split-Leaf Philodendron (monstera deliciosa) -- DONA STURMANIS -- When Two Funny Women Died in One Month -- Bag Lady -- FRED WAH -- Artknot 13 -- (Biotext fragment #57) -- I'd get into Ruth's death business but -- TOM WAYMAN -- Did I Miss Anything? -- My Old Master -- IAN WEIR -- C'est la Guerre -- JIM WONG-CHU -- equal opportunity.

hippo luck -- of christmas -- ANDREW WREGGITT -- Burning My Father's Clothes -- Tools -- DERK WYNAND -- Snowscape -- Stall -- Queluz Palace.