Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Biographical Note xi
5. Daphne Marlatt’s Embodied Language Poetics xiii
6. Street opera 1
7. Coming in, who 5
8. June near the river Clyst, Clust, clear. Clystmois this holding wet & clear. 6
9. Combe Martin, house martin,Martinmas, Saint Martin, martial swords & plowshares 7
10. Avebury awi-spek, winged from buried (egg 9
11. Litter. wreckage. salvage 11
12. Ghost 15
13. “Slave of the canneries” 17
14. Winter / rice / tea strain 19
15. Here 22
16. This place full of contradiction 23
17. Prairie 24
18. Kore 25
19. “Two women in a birth” 26
20. “Imagin-a-nation in the heart of” 27
21. There is a door 28
22. Shrimping 29
23. from Mauve 30
24. Small print 31
25. Booking passage 34
26. In the current 38
27. Generation, generations at the mouth 40
28. “Complicated” 42
29. Years Ago (from The Gull, Act I) 43
30. Singing grass 46
31. You remember 49
32. Walking out 52
33. Tree-song (from Shadow Catch, Act I) 53
34. “Spectacular” 55
35. To navigate 57
36. Comes walking 59
37. Marine ah 60
38. Through cloud 61
39. Lift. step. drop 62
40. Immediacies of Writing 63
41. Acknowledgements 67
42. Books in the Laurier Poetry Series 71