Table of Contents

Fretting the Muse:
The Music in Poetry

Contents

interview with Ken Howe
poetry by Ken Howe
notes on the urban squirrel
quatour pour la fin du temps, Banff Centre, 1994
a noonhour piano recital in which catherine donkin in her woollen sweater plays
debussy's les sons et les parfums tournant dans l'air du soir

interview with Clive Holden
poetry by Clive Holden
love in the white city
burning down the suburbs
genoa
saigon apartments

interview with Jeanette Lynes
poetry by Jeanette Lynes
room 141 - with larkspur and banana
poem for anyone who has never lived in a national park
the ken madsen path to town
gospel of a minor tributary

interview with Jon Paul Fiorentino
poetry by Jon Paul Fiorentino
it's just that
transcona 1986
dauphin 1981
winnipeg

interview with Alissa York
poetry by Alissa York
stitches (an excerpt)

poetry by Suzanne Hancock
leaving to a billie holiday soundtrack
death and the maiden
chiaroscuro
the day your mother gave birth to a stillborn

poetry by Ben Murray
julliard quartet plays to the balcony
rvw is in the house
with music

poetry by Eva Holland
transcanada

poetry by Joanne Epp
rhapsody no.2 in g minor
suite français by francis poulene

poetry by Sylvia Legris
shifty weather
ravenousness

poetry by Jonathan Ball
when the centre cannot hold
kinetic

poetry by Debbie Young
dub
blood
holy

column by Treena Kortje
reviewin' words