Writing the Terrain (PDF)

Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada's finest established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets is the first anthology dedicated solely to the poetry of the Alberta landscape and cityscape, by authors who have travelled the main roads, back roads, and gravel roads of this vast province. This collection offers a series of poetic journeys through Calgary and Edmonton, through the foothills, the badlands, the Rockies, the central parklands, and the northern boreal forests. Following in the Canadian literary tradition of "preoccupation with place" these are poems that demonstrate a response to the landscape and ponder its effect on the body, mind, and spirit. With Contributions By: Ian Adam
Tammy Armstrong
Margaret Avison
Douglas Barbour
John O. Barton
Doug Beardsley
BonnieBishop
E.D. Blodgett
Robert Boates
George Bowering
Tim Bowling
Jan Boydol
Gordon Burles
Murdoch Burnett
Anne Campbell
Weyman Chan
Leonard Cohen
Dennis Cooley
Joan Crate
Michael Cullen
Cyril Dabydeen
Lorne Daniel
Alexa DeWiel
Jason Dewinetz
Ryan Fitzpatrick
Cecelia Frey
Gary Geddes
Gail Ghai
Deborah Godin
Jim Green
Leslie Greentree
Vivian Hansen
Tom Henihan
Michael Henry
Walter Hildebrandt
Gerald Hill
Robert Hilles
Nancy Holmes
Richard Hornsey
Tom Howe
Bruce Hunter
Aislinn Hunter
Laurence Hutchman
Sally Ito
Pauline Johnson
Aleksei Kazuk
Robert Kroetsch
Fiona Lam
William Latta
Tim Lilburn
Alice Major
Kim Maltman
Miriam Mandel
Sid Marty
David McFadden
Barry McKinnon
Erin Michie
Deborah Miller
Anna Mioduchowska
James M. Moir
Colin Morton
Erin Moure
Charles Noble
P.K. Page
Rajinderpal Pal
Ruth Roach Pierson
Joseph Pivato
Roberta Rees
D.C. Reid
Monty Reid
r. rickey
Ken Rivard
Stephen Scobie
Allan Serafino
Joan Shillington
Greg Simison
Carol Ann Sokoloff
Karen Solie
Robert Stamp
Stephan Stephansson
Peter Stevens
Ivan Sundal
Anne Swannell
Vanna Tessier
Colleen Thibadeau
John O. Thompson
James M. Thurgood
Eva Tihanyi
Yvonne Trainer
Aritha van Herk
Rosalee van Stelten
Miriam Waddington
Wilfred Watson
James Wreford Watson
Tom Wayman
Phyllis Webb
Jon Whyte
Christine Wiesenthal
Sheri-D Wilson
Christopher Wiseman
Stacie Wolfer
Rita Wong
Richard Woollatt
Jan Zwicky