Articles
Portrait of the Artist as Young Pup (p. 35-41)
Journal Intime (p. 50-55)
The Countries of Invention (p. 104-108)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (p. 109-117)
Local Culture and the National Will (p. 124-129)
Mere Self (p. 132-138)
The End of Emma (p. 148-156)
Le Jardin Rêvé (p. 164-170)
My Final Hour (p. 187-197)
All Aboa-r-rd! (p. 200-203)
Petite Histoire d’une Obsession (p. 207-211)
Auschwitz: Poetry of Alienation (p. 213-218)
Entering In: The Immigrant Imagination (p. 219-224)
Confessions of a Commercial Writer (p. 242-243)
Ontario Culture and—What? (p. 252-257)
The Canadian Climate (p. 258-263)
Are Canadians Politically Naïve? (p. 287-297)
Basmati Rice (p. 312-317)
Influences (p. 323-328)
The Art of Blackmail (p. 329-332)
On Coming to British Columbia (p. 339-345)
On Death and Writing (p. 354-360)
A Cycle of Ind (p. 362-371)
Poems
Misericordia General (p. 11-18)
Heart Test with an Echo Chamber (p. 19-20)
In the Midnight Hours (p. 21-23)
Corps de noce corps de divorce (p. 24-29)
Still Life Near Bangalore (p. 30-31)
Ellesmereland 1983 (p. 31)
Baybees Breth (p. 32)
Whn Diefenbaker Went (p. 34)
By Flashlight (p. 42-43)
Form and Variation (p. 44-45)
In October (p. 46-47)
Two Variations (p. 48-49)
Mountains (p. 56)
Neuchatlitz (p. 57-58)
Iris (p. 58-59)
L’Enigme (p. 60-61)
Un livre de morale (p. 61-62)
Dix poemes (p. 63-64)
Wind (p. 79-80)
Ceremony of the Afterbirth (p. 80-81)
Transformation of the Spirits (p. 81-83)
Riel (p. 84-89)
Dreams of Desertion (p. 90-91)
Send Me a Postcard (p. 92)
Moon Sharks (p. 93-94)
Scripts (p. 95-96)
The Return (p. 97)
Yes (p. 103)
Still Life (p. 118)
Poverty Lines (p. 120-121)
The Road by the Lake (p. 122)
At the Zoo (p. 123)
Ou sont les manteaux (p. 130-131)
Palinode (p. 147)
Variations (p. 157-163)
In the Forest (p. 171)
Grief Poem (p. 171-172)
Advice to My Friends (p. 181-182)
Corduroy (p. 183)
Variations (p. 184-186)
New Year’s Poem for Veneranda (p. 198-198)
Jude the Obscure (p. 198-198)
Riff (p. 199-199)
Wood Edge (p. 204-205)
Barker Fairley and the Blizzard (p. 206-206)
The Technology of the Persistence of Memory (p. 212-212)
[from] Touch to My Tongue (p. 223-224)
[from] The Danish Sketches (p. 225-227)
[from] Dreamfields (p. 228-229)
Sacrifice (p. 230-230)
At the Monastery of the Cross (p. 230-230)
Class of ’62: Re-union (p. 231-231)
Living Together (p. 232-232)
Siksika (p. 233-233)
Be Sociable (p. 234-234)
Shocks (p. 234-235)
Adrift (p. 236-236)
Triptych (p. 237-238)
Draft of an Epilogue to “Inchoate World” (p. 239-241)
Pigs (p. 244-245)
Proust in the Waters (p. 246-247)
Birch Bark (p. 247-247)
Dr. Dolittle (p. 248-249)
Bestiary (p. 250-251)
The Oracle (p. 298)
Note on the Economy (p. 298-298)
Goldfish and Bumblebees (p. 299-299)
Saturday Afternoon at Kensington Market (p. 300-300)
Santayana (p. 301-301)
Tony’s Crabapple Tree (p. 302-305)
Floating Entry / (p. 305-306)
Clarrie (p. 307-308)
Sandblind at the Crossing (p. 308-309)
Turgenev’s Huntsmen (p. 310-310)
Poem in Memory of an Earlier Poem (p. 310-311)
Autobiography (p. 318)
Solar Fugue (p. 318-319)
Breakthrough (p. 319-320)
Not a Poem (p. 321-322)
Poeme (p. 333-333)
Lacis (p. 333-334)
Répartition (p. 334-334)
Suite pour un silence (p. 334-335)
The New Seasons (p. 336-337)
The Gift (p. 337-338)
Diana Rigg (p. 346-347)
Sonnet Times Three (p. 347-348)
Wood (p. 349-350)
Following (p. 351-352)
Performance (p. 352-353)
Kensington Gardens, May 1982 (p. 361-361)
Twin (p. 372-372)
Outward from the Pool’s Dry Edge (p. 372-373)
The Other Version (p. 373-373)
The Party Line (p. 374-375)