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1993) aided my research.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    Poems in this book have previously appeared or will soon appear, often in different forms, in the following journals and anthologies:
Arc, The Backwater Review, Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets
(Harbour Publishing),
Bywords, Canadian Literature, Contemporary Verse 2, Dandelion, Ellipse, Event, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Meltwater: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts
(Banff Centre Press),
Ne West Review, PRISM international, A Room at the Heart of Things
(Véhicule Press),
Versodove
(Italy) and
We All Begin in a Little Magazine: Arc and the Promise of Canada’s Poets, 1978 to 1998
(Arc magazine and Carleton University Press). An excerpt from “Many Have Written Poems About Blackberries” was part of the B.C. Poetry in Transit project. Some poems from “Inside a Tent of Skin” appeared in
Inside a Tent of Skin: 9 Poems from the National Gallery of Canada
, a limited-edition chapbook published by {m}Öthěr Tøñgué Press in May 1998.
    “
Deux personnages dans la nuit
” was one of two winners of
The Malahat Revie
’s long poem competition in 1997, and a selection of poems from “Inside a Tent of Skin” won first prize in {m}Öthěr Tøñgué Press’s chapbook competition in 1998. “Poems for the Flood” won first prize in
Contemporary Verse 2
’s 1996/97 poetry contest. Some of the poems in this book were part of the winning manuscript in the 1996 Bronwen Wallace Award competition.
    Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, all of which provided invaluable assistance in the writing of this book. Thanks to the Banff Centre for the Arts for time and space.
    I am grateful to the many people who have read these poems and supported their development. Special thanks, for inspired and incisive critiques, to Barbara Nickel, Christopher Patton, Michael Harris, Diana Brebner, Don Coles, George McWhirter, Rhea Tregebov, and Don McKay, my editor. Thanks also to all my friends who make the writing life so worthwhile, especially Sara Graefe, Shirley Mahood, Caroline Davis Goodwin, Carmine Starnino, Tim Bowling, Keith Maillard, Craig Burnett, Peter Eastwood, Shannon Stewart, and Eleonore Schönmaier.
    Thank you, as always, to my family.