A collection from Alberta's best writers.

My new neighbourhood /S.G. Stephansson -- Willow Green School / Robert Stead -- The country school / Nellie McClung -- Prairie moonlight / Wilfrid Eggleston -- It's gotta rain sometime / R. Ross Annett -- Low note in the night / Kerry Wood -- Continuity / R.H. Blackburn -- The box social / Edward A. McCourt -- Winter / Barbara Villy Cormack -- Especially worthy / John Patrick Gillese -- A curse of dahlias / Wilfred Watson -- Silence / Jessie Drummond Boyd -- Range pony / Marion Kathleen Henry -- Red-tailed hawk / Jack Appleby -- Public sale / William Latta -- First tree for frost / Earle Birney -- Two kinds of sinner / W.O. Mitchell -- The fiery cloud / R.M. Patterson -- "One Sport", the Buffalo / E.J. "Bud" Cotton -- Islanders / Richard Braun -- The woman who got on at Jasper Station / Howard O'Hagan -- Fan dancers / Ethel Erroll Boyd -- Edmonton meets the challenge / J.G. MacGregor -- Remarkable town / Alfred Bahry -- The broken globe / Henry Kreisel -- The old men / Yar Slavutych -- The merciful tenderizer / Agnes Copithorne -- Untitled / Barry McKinnon -- The day of the horses / Robert Kroetsch -- The oil / George Bowering -- Stone hammer poem / Robert Kroetsch -- Spring in Prague, 1968 / Henry Beissel -- For Nancy going to war / Bert Almon -- Walking buffalo / Mary Allan -- The Committee for the Preservation of Morals / June Bhatia -- Loud voices fade / Sara Stambaugh -- Possibilities / Robert Hogg -- The long walk home / Hugh A. Dempsey -- On secular music in a religious setting / Karen Henderson -- The future of poetry in Canada / Elizabeth Brewster -- Spane / Leona Gom -- Bittersweet winter / Lois McLean Davis -- A Romanian pioneer / Anne B. Woywitka -- The unknown autobiography / William Kurelek -- The French bear / Wilfred Watson -- The trained despairing eye / J.O. Thompson -- Transitions / Jon Whyte -- Coyote again / Sid Marty -- Montreal Lake / Maria Campbell -- At Wabamun the Calgary Power Station / Eli Mandel -- My geranium / Miriam Mandel -- Bon Jour de l'An / Therese Regimbald -- In Calgary these things / Ian Adam -- Caged in / Jan Truss -- One afternoon / James Moir -- The peacock / Joan Clark -- Quiet Sunday / Fred Stenson -- Hailstorm / Cecelia Frey -- The quarterback / Christopher Wiseman -- Give me a biddable pet / Barbara Kwasny -- Arrivederci / Marion Herbert -- River Road / Allan Shute -- The debt / John W. Chalmers -- O light / Roy Kiyooka -- Protected environment / H.A. Hargreaves -- The Model T. / Margaret Graham -- Old Bill / J.W. Grant MacEwan -- The hermit of God Hope / Carl J. Buchanan -- There's always room for two more / Stella Johnston -- Rodeo clown / John Ballem -- The weathermen / Edna Alford -- Earthquake / Gary Willis -- The snubbing of Reginald Crowder / Tony Cashman -- 1912: the bridge beginning / Wade Bell -- Breakup ice / Jannis Allan Hare -- White mountains in the moon / Betty Wilson -- Panache / W.P. Kinsella -- These mountains are our sacred places / John Snow -- We the people of this land / Douglas Cardinal -- Mary Duncan / Greg Hollingshead -- Heading west / Michael Penny -- The cause of doubles / Eli Mandel -- Alberta Pearl / Cliff Faulknor -- Roundup / Jock Carpenter -- Star performer / Jean B. Greig -- His own man / W.B. Parsons -- Grandfather / Colin Morton -- Battle in the barnyard / George Hoke -- Aging / R.A. Kawalilak -- The friendly owl / Andy Russell -- The penguins / Greg Simison -- Saint Peter / Aritha van Herk -- Woman house / Victoria Walker -- Death of a pharaoh / Pauline Gedge -- Ethnic sideroads / Myrna Kostash -- Prisoners of history: how we got this way / James H. Gray -- Prelude to invasion / W.G. Hardy -- Corruption / Charles Nobel -- In the Beaver Hills / Rudy Wiebe -- Break-up / Arlyne Tydeman Dewar -- In the beginning ... / Mike Mountain Horse -- Mood two: suspended / Carolyn D. Redl-Hlus -- The rivals / Dorothy Barnhouse -- Winter night: stepping out / Lorne Daniel -- "Sixteen tons and what do you get?" / David Bercuson -- The yard / Monty Reid -- Jack Chambers: 'Nude' 74-76 / Douglas Barbour -- Politics of otherness / George Melnyk -- Nooneow / Sooneow / Stephen Scobie -- Burnt offerings / Steve Hume -- Valleyview / David Williamson -- Turner Valley, Alberta / Ken Rivard -- Tripping / Deena Hunter -- Arctic owl / E.D. Blodgett -- Eggs / Karen Lawrence.