In this slipcased, dazzingly illustrated edition of the poem cycle that gave rise to the novel Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood sets her poems against the Canadian landscape from pioneer days to the 20th century. It is one of Atwood's most enduring volumes of verse, offering timeless insights into human survival and renewal -- in nature and in civilization.

Contents:

• Journal I
  • Disembarking at Quebec
  • Further Arrivals
  • First Neighbours
  • The Planters
  • The Wereman
  • Paths and Thingscape
  • The Two Fires
  • Looking in a Mirror
  • Departure from the Bush
• Journal II
  • Death of a Young Son by Drowning
  • The Immigrants
  • Dream 1: The Bush Garden
  • 1837 War in Retrospect
  • Dream 2: Brian the Still-Hunter
  • Charivari
  • Dream 3: Night Bear Which Frightened Cattle
  • The Deaths of Other Children
  • The Double Voice
• Journal III
  • Later in Belleville: Career
  • Daguerreotype Taken in Old Age
  • Wish: Metamorphoses to Heraldic Emblem
  • Visit to Toronto, with Companions
  • Solipsism While Dying
  • Thoughts from Underground
  • Resurrection
  • A Bus Along St Clair: December
• Afterword