By the author of Wilson MacDonald's Western Tour (a "critical collage") and Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature Of Treaty 9 (winner of the 1995 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Criticism of Canadian Literature) - nine passionate essays on the writing of seven important contemporary Canadian writers: George Bowering, Leonard Cohen, Christopher Dewdney, Dennis Lee, Daphne Marlatt, Al Purdy and James Reaney.