Contributors include:
P.K. Page introducing Marilyn Bowering
Susan Musgrave introducing James Clarke
Lorna Crozier introducing Carla Funk
Erin Mouré introducing Susan Holbrook
John Newlove introducing Rob McLennan
Patrick Lane introducing Elizabeth Phillips
Robert Kroetsch introducing Helen Tsiriotakis
Anne Michaels introducing Sheila Waite
Margaret Avision introducing George Whipple
A.F. Moritz introducing Carleton Wilson

Thus we have Susan Musgrave on James Clarke ("enormous capacity for compassion," "wry humour"); Don MaKay (just shortlisted for the Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize) on Karen Solie ("Sylvia Fricker and Susan Sontag in the same sensibility"); Lorna Crozier on Carla Funk ("the pragmatism, spirituality and sensuousness of a St. Theresa"); George Elliott Clarke on Suzette Mayr ("part tonic water and part disinfectant"). Other pairings include Anne Michaels and Sheila Waite, Richard Outram and George Murray, Erin Moure and Susan Holbrook. . . this is a worthy project, made worthier by the fact that proceeds from its sale will go to Frontier College, a national literacy organization."
— The Globe and Mail