Table of Contents

Contents

an interview with Barry Dempster

poetry by Barry Dempster
camera
where?
three lives/three deaths
disappearing fathers
wanting it all now

an interview with Lori Cayer

poetry by Lori Cayer
in the bush with him
bloodblossom
amateur's guide to agoraphobia

an interview with Nina Berkhout

poetry by Nina Berkhout
pas de deux: excerpts from a work in progress

poetry by Moberly Luger
a pomegranate is a picture of a pomegranate

poetry by Dorothy field
in the wind, in the sand and sage

an excerpt of an interview with Lorna Crozier

poetry by Ariel Gordon
wrought substance
the savoy suite: sprays of birds

photography by Mike Deal
shot of ghost signs
shot of broken-down door

poetry by Richard Wood
tremors

poetry by Rosanna Deerchild
picasso's bird
speak
wetigo

poetry by Terry Watada
the human side

poetry by Dona Sturmanis
netherworld
vancouver II

poetry by Lorne Power
leads
parking lot read

poetry by Esther Mazakian
green rancour in the hushed resilience outside waning as if for spite

poetry by Marguerite Pigeon
the things people refuse