NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Some of these poems appeared, in slightly different forms and sometimes under different titles, in The Antigonish Review, CV2, Dandelion, Descant, Existere, The Fiddlehead, The Literary Review of Canada and Room. Thanks to the editors.

Early versions of the manuscript were read with care and attention by Jessica Moore, who gave me support through the compiling and editing. Other early readers were Lea Ambros, Anna Bekerman, Simone Rosenberg and Kilby Smith-McGregor. Many, many thanks.

Thanks to another early reader, Penny Goldsmith, who asked me ten years ago if I had considered writing a collection of poetry, and then made me do it.

Thanks to my parents, David Cayley and Jutta Mason.

Thanks to everyone at Brick Books for such good care and for putting me in such good company. Particular thanks to Sue Sinclair for patient, precise attention, for fostering the strengths and seeing the pitfalls, and for urging me to look closer. Working with you was a joy.

Many of the photographs that inspired the second section of the book are in the William James Collection of the City of Toronto Archives. Thanks to the archivists.

Thanks to the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council for supporting me at various points while these poems were written, and to Arc and Hamilton Arts and Letters, for recommending me for support through the OAC’s Writers’ Reserve Program.

Thanks to Tarragon Theatre for giving me a space in which to write.

The quotation at the end of “Reading Gwendolyn MacEwen’s T. E. Lawrence Poems” is from MacEwen’s poem “Our Child Which Art in Heaven.”

Thanks to Theatre Smith-Gilmour, whose production GRIMM too inspired “The Witch and the Birds” and “The Girl on the Road.”

“Family History” is for my grandmother, Heidi Bechmann (1925-2011).

“Learning to Read” is for David White.

Final thanks to Lea Ambros for having every kind of faith in me, all the time (for we know how to spend the time, who cares about the weather).