This collection is wildly idiosyncratic and certain to be controversial. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, these poems do not reflect a `young' or a `mature' voice; for Page, time is not linear and change does not occur along a narrow path. Think of this volume as a sort of pocket P. K. Page making its way into backpacks, carry-on luggage, doctors' waiting rooms...

Contents -- Foreword -- Address at Simon Fraser (excerpt) -- After rain -- After reading Albino pheasants by Patrick Lane -- Ah, by the golden lilies -- Ancestors (from Melanie's nite--book) -- And about death -- Another space -- Arras -- As on a dark charger -- A backwards journey -- Beside you -- Custodian -- Deaf mute in the pear tree -- Dwelling place -- Ecology -- Evening dance of the grey flies -- The filled pen -- Funeral mass -- A grave illness -- Hand luggage (excerpts) -- The hidden room -- Hughes -- Inebriate -- Intraocular lens model 103g -- Leather jacket -- Like a cruise ship -- Macumba: Brazil -- Man with one small hand -- The mole -- Motel pool -- The new bicycle -- On educating the natives -- Picking daffodils -- Poem canzonic with love to AMK -- Remembering -- The selves -- Soft travellers -- Stargazer -- Stefan -- Stories of snow -- Suddenly -- This heavy craft -- This sky -- Traveller's palm --Truce -- Winter morning -- The world -- Young girls -- Zero is zero -- About P.K. Page.