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acknowledgements Evan Jones would like to thank Marion Endt and John McAuliffe for their assistance and thoughts throughout the editing of this book. Todd Swift would like to thank Brian Busby; Kavita Joshi (who typed and proofread some of the earlier drafts); colleagues at Kingston University; his wife Sara; and his grandmother, Melita Hume, who early on introduced him to her comprehensive library of Canadian poets and poetry anthologies. Both editors would like to thank Michael Schmidt and Judith Willson at Carcanet for their support. The editors and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following poems in this book: ROBERT ALLEN: ‘The Newt’s Song’, ‘Alexandria’s Waltz’ from Magellan’s Clouds: Poems 1971–1986 (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 1987); excerpt from The Encantadas (Conundrum Press, 2006). Copyright © the Estate of Robert Allen, included by permission of the publishers. MARGARET AVISON: ‘Watershed’, ‘Twilight’, ‘The Christian’s Year in Miniature’, ‘Natural/Unnatural’, ‘Transit’ from Always Now: The Collected Poems Volume 1 (Porcupine’s Quill, 2003). Copyright © the Estate of Margaret Avison, included by permission of the publisher. ALFRED BAILEY: ‘The Unreturning’, ‘The Isosceles Lighthouse’, ‘The Question, Is it?’, ‘Border River’, ‘Miramichi Lightning’, ‘The Bumpkin and the Bobcat’ from Miramichi Lightning (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1981). Copyright © the Estate of Alfred Bailey, included by permission of G.S. d’Avray Bailey. DIONNE BRAND: ‘XXX’ from ‘Thirsty’. Copyright © 2002 by Dionne Brand. ‘VI’ from ‘Inventory’. Copyright © 2006 by Dionne Brand. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. and used with permission. ROBERT BRINGHURST: ‘Essay On Adam’, ‘Bone Flute Breathing’, ‘The Beauty of the Weapons’, ‘Herakleitos’ from Selected Poems (Gaspereau Press, 2009, and Jonathan Cape, 2010). Copyright © Robert Bringhurst. Reprinted by permission of Gaspereau Press and The Random House Group Ltd. ANNE CARSON: ‘Essay on What I Think About Most’, ‘Father’s Old Blue Cardigan’ from Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson, copyright © 2000 by Anne Carson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. In the UK, published by Jonathan Cape. 236
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Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.; Emile Nelligan, ‘Funeral Marches’ and ‘Night Confession’, translated by Anne Carson, as first appeared in London Review of Books Vol. 28, No. 9. Copyright © Anne Carson, 2006. Reproduced by permission of Lippincott Massie McQuilkin. GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE: ‘The River Pilgrim: A Letter’, ‘Monologue for Selah Bringing to Whylah Falls’, ‘Ecclesiastes’, ‘Lear of Whylah Falls’, ‘The Given Day’ from Whylah Falls (Polestar Press, Raincoast Books, 1990). Copyright © George Elliott Clarke, included by permission of the author and the publisher. DON COLES: ‘Photograph in a Stockholm Newspaper for March 13, 1910’, ‘How We All Swiftly’ from How We All Swiftly: The First Six Books (Signal Editions, 2005); ‘My Son at the Seashore, Age Two’, ‘Someone Has Stayed in Stockholm’ from Forests of the Medieval World (Porcupine’s Quill, 1993); ‘On a Caspar David Friedrich Painting Entitled “Two Men Observing the Moon”’ from Kurgan (Porcupine’s Quill, 2000). Copyright © Don Coles, included by permission of the author and the publishers. ANNE COMPTON: ‘What Light Decays’, ‘What Matters’ from Asking Questions Indoors and Out (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2009); ‘How We Care for Trees in Winter’, ‘We Go Forward’, ‘Six Sisters’ from Processional (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2005). Copyright © Anne Compton, included by permission of the publisher. MARY DALTON: ‘Flirrup’, ‘Jesus and his Gashes’, ‘Burn’, ‘Fairy-Struck’ from Merrybegot (Signal Editions, 2003); ‘Il Dolce Stil Novo’ from Red Ledger (Signal Editions, 2006). Copyright © Mary Dalton, included by permission of the publisher. JOHN GLASSCO: ‘Quebec Farmhouse’, ‘Brummell at Calais’ from Selected Poems with Three Notes on the Poetic Process (Golden Dog Press, 1997); ‘The Game’, ‘[Autrefois]’, ‘[A propos de cet enfant]’ from Complete Poems of Saint Denys Garneau (Oberon Press, 1975). Copyright © the Estate of John Glassco, included with the permission of William Toye, literary executor for the Estate of John Glassco. ANNE HÉBERT: ‘The Closed Room’, ‘Mystery of the Verb’, ‘Snow’, ‘Too Tightly Fitted’, ‘Captive Gods’ from Poems by Anne Hébert, translated by Alan Brown (Musson Book Company, 1975): Translations copyright © Alan Brown. STEVEN HEIGHTON: ‘The Machine Gunner’ from Ecstasy of Skeptics by Steven Heighton © 1994. Reprinted with permission of House of Anansi Press, Inc. www.anansi.ca. ‘Address Book’, ‘Le Vaisseau d’Or’, ‘In Sparta’ from The Address Book by Steven Heighton © 2004. Reprinted with permission of House of Anansi Press, Inc. www.anansi.ca. ‘Selected Monsters’, from Patient Frame by Steven Heighton © 2010. Reprinted with permission of House of Anansi Press, Inc. www.anansi.ca. DARYL HINE: ‘A Bewilderment at the Entrance of the Fat Boy into Eden’, ‘Psyche’, ‘Patroclus Putting on the Armour of Achilles’, ‘Total Immersion’, ‘Summer Afternoon’ from Recollected Poems: 1951–2004 (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2007). Copyright © Daryl Acknowedgements 237

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acknowledgements

Evan Jones would like to thank Marion Endt and John McAuliffe for their assistance and thoughts throughout the editing of this book.

Todd Swift would like to thank Brian Busby; Kavita Joshi (who typed and proofread some of the earlier drafts); colleagues at Kingston University; his wife Sara; and his grandmother, Melita Hume, who early on introduced him to her comprehensive library of Canadian poets and poetry anthologies.

Both editors would like to thank Michael Schmidt and Judith Willson at Carcanet for their support.

The editors and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following poems in this book:

ROBERT ALLEN: ‘The Newt’s Song’, ‘Alexandria’s Waltz’ from Magellan’s Clouds: Poems 1971–1986 (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 1987); excerpt from The Encantadas (Conundrum Press, 2006). Copyright © the Estate of Robert Allen, included by permission of the publishers. MARGARET AVISON: ‘Watershed’, ‘Twilight’, ‘The Christian’s Year in Miniature’, ‘Natural/Unnatural’, ‘Transit’ from Always Now: The Collected Poems Volume 1 (Porcupine’s Quill, 2003). Copyright © the Estate of Margaret Avison, included by permission of the publisher. ALFRED BAILEY: ‘The Unreturning’, ‘The Isosceles Lighthouse’, ‘The Question, Is it?’, ‘Border River’, ‘Miramichi Lightning’, ‘The Bumpkin and the Bobcat’ from Miramichi Lightning (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1981). Copyright © the Estate of Alfred Bailey, included by permission of G.S. d’Avray Bailey. DIONNE BRAND: ‘XXX’ from ‘Thirsty’. Copyright © 2002 by Dionne Brand. ‘VI’ from ‘Inventory’. Copyright © 2006 by Dionne Brand. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd. and used with permission. ROBERT BRINGHURST: ‘Essay On Adam’, ‘Bone Flute Breathing’, ‘The Beauty of the Weapons’, ‘Herakleitos’ from Selected Poems (Gaspereau Press, 2009, and Jonathan Cape, 2010). Copyright © Robert Bringhurst. Reprinted by permission of Gaspereau Press and The Random House Group Ltd. ANNE CARSON: ‘Essay on What I Think About Most’, ‘Father’s Old Blue Cardigan’ from Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson, copyright © 2000 by Anne Carson. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. In the UK, published by Jonathan Cape.

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