NOTES & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
EARLIER VERSIONS OF SEVERAL of these stories appeared in the following publications:
“The Laurel Whalen” Grain
“In Russia” Event
“At the Lake” The Malahat Review
“All This Was a Long Time Ago” The Malahat Review
“Brighton, Where Are You?” Joyland
“First Women’s Battalion of Death” Joyland
“You Have to Think of Me What You Think of Me” The Rusty Toque
“Bearing the Body” The New Quarterly
“The Selected Kid Curry” Forget Magazine
Thank you to the editors of each.
A version of “The Children of the Great Strike, Vancouver Island, 1912–14,” made in collaboration with designer Sarah Kerr, previously appeared as a broadside art installation in the windows of several Cumberland, BC businesses. Thank you to Alberto Pozzolo, Sew What I Sew, Village Muse Bookstore, Seeds Food Market and the Cumberland Museum and Archives. Visit www.sarahkerrphotography.ca for more on Sarah’s work.
The epigraph from Peter Gizzi is from his book Threshold Songs and is used with permission.
The epigraph from Thomas Hardy is from his poem “Going and Staying” and is in the public domain.
The epigraph to “All This Was a Long Time Ago” is from T.S. Eliot’s poem “Journey of the Magi.”
The story “You Have to Think of Me What You Think of Me” borrows its title from Larry Levi’s poem “My Life in a Late Syle of Fire.”
I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Access Copyright Foundation and the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
A special thank you to the many friends and colleagues who gracefully offered essential feedback on various stories over the years: Darren Bifford, Treena Chambers, Evie Christie, Helen Guri, Steph Harrington, Jack Hodgins, Matthew Hooton, Chris Hutchinson, Will Johnson, Stephen Leckie, Amber McMillan, Grant Shilling, Traci Skuce, Michael V. Smith, Beth Turner and Melanie Willson.
Thank you to Ben Didier for yet another superb cover design. See more of Ben’s work at www.prettyugly.ca
Thank you to Silas White, Angela Caravan, Heather Lohnes and everyone at Nightwood Editions, purveyors of the finest books.