Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. a short walk into exile 1
4. at the edge of prairie there are no secrets
5. alberta notebooks: 4
6. spare change 5
7. power plant 6
8. hair of the dog 7
9. eleven lines of itchy sorrow 8
10. the hills (the northern lights) 9
11. rear window 10
12. prose, a novel 11
13. after having spent so much time indoors 12
14. poem that echoes an earlier poem 13
15. madrigal for john & jean 14
16. the window of walls at the top of the world 16
17. on the edge of prairie there are no secrets 17
18. & if all the rest is dross 18
19. an opening of the plains 19
20. lost in translation 20
21. my life as a dead north-west explorer 21
22. wild horses
23. rereading paige ackerson-kiely on the airplane back to edmonton 30
24. ‘the girl from abbotsford’ 31
25. wild horses 32
26. poem for west edmonton mall 33
27. poem listening to my daughter at a distance of some thousand miles 34
28. a possible film treatment for the rest of the afternoon 35
29. sex at thirty-eight 36
30. After Spicer 39
31. map of edmonton
32. for/after erin mouré 47
33. map of edmonton (prelude) 48
34. map of edmonton (rossdale flats) 49
35. map of edmonton (garneau) 54
36. map of edmonton (mill creek) 57
37. map of edmonton (saskatchewan drive) 60
38. map of edmonton (belgravia) 64
39. map of edmonton (birthday) 66
40. map of edmonton (windsor park) 71
41. map of edmonton (allandale) 74
42. map of edmonton (airport) 77
43. map of edmonton (michaels park) 78
44. map of edmonton (rossdale) 83
45. acknowledgements 85