FRONT MATTER
Title Page
Acknowledgements, Table of Contents
PREFACE
Rummagings, 7: “The Empty Expanse of Negation”: Nathan Phillips Square in Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies
by D.M.R. Bentley
**Note: The previous numbers of “Rummagings” appear in Canadian Poetry 51, 53, 56, 58, and 61.
STUDIES
West Coast Nocturnes: Earle Birney’s David and Other Poems
by Tracey Ware
Witness to the Body Count: Planetary Ethics in Dionne Brand’s Inventory
by Cheryl Lousley
Drinking with Sir. John A.: Stephen Cain’s New History of Canada
by Owen Percy
Ambivalent Inheritance and Colonial Desire in Isabella Valancy Crawford’s Malcolm’s Katie
by Mark Libin
The “Highminded Pole” of Standish O’Grady’s Emigrant: Nils von Shoultz and the Literary Construction of a Tragic Rebel
by Michele Holmgren
REVIEWS
Out of the Shade
by Zailig Pollock
Ms. Pufrock Gets Engaged
by Nick Mount
Great Pasticheurs
by Robert G. May
