| Prefaces: |
- John Barton, "Through a Glass, Greenly"
- Jay Ruzesky, "The Y Tree"
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| Poetry: |
- Tim Bowling, "The Return"
- Roo Borson, "Blowing Clouds"
- Julie Bruck, "After Wildfire"
- Jan Conn, "Not as it is Perceived in the Phenomenal World"
- Degan Davis, "Walmart, circa 2097"
- Adam Dickinson, "Plastics (An Introduction)"
- Neile Graham, "Thunderbird Comes from the Sunset"
- Corneila Hoogland, "Fundamental"
- Cynthia Woodman Kerkham, "Snowy Owl on a Suburban Street"
- Sonnet L’Abbé, "Labitat"
- Don McKay, "Song for the Song of the Sandhill Crane"
- Arleen Paré, "these are the trials of water" and "headlong"
- Philip Kevin Paul, "When the Stones Cleared Their Throats to Sing, " "Descent into Saanich," "Song for the Place of Deer," and "Back to Our Songs."
- Sina Queyras, "Her Dreams of the Expressway"
- Melanie Siebert, "Because They are Good at Lying Low"
- John Steffler, "Under Mad Dog Lake," "Battle at Halfway Point," "Bear Brains," and "Smudging the Map."
- Gillian Wigmore, "Water Girls"
- Derk Wynand, "Horizon Notes"
- Patricia Young, "Endgame"
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| Essays: |
- Timothy Brownlow, "Green Thoughts in Green Shades"
- John Harley, "Circle of Lakes"
- Carol Matthews, "The Shadehouse, the Canopy, and the Earthworm"
- Peter Sanger, "Good as Green"
- Jan Zwicky, "Lyric Realism: Nature Poetry, Silence and Ontology "
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Interviews: |
- Interviews by Jay Ruzesky
- O, The Whole Shebang: An Epistolary Interview with Don McKay
- The Horse Hitting its Stride: An Interview with Tim Lilburn
- Serve Your Planet: An Interview with P.K. Page
- The Details: An Interview with Jan Zwicky
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| 2008 Creative Non-Fiction Award |
Joel Yanofsky, Bad Day |
| Reviews: |
- Christopher Patton, Ox (Montreal: Vehicule, 2007). Paperbound, 73 pp., $16.95 (Reviewed by Theresa Kishkan).
- Tim Lilburn, Orphic Politics (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008). Paperbound, 86 pp, $17.99. (Reviewed by Tanis Macdonald)
- Gillian Wigmore, Soft Geography (Madeira Park: Caitlin, 2007). Paperbound, 84 pp, $15.95. (Reviewed by Clarise Foster)
- Bill Gaston, The Order of Good Cheer (Toronto: Anansi, 2008). Hardbound, 391 pp., $29.95. (Reviewed by Norma Lundberg)
Tim Bowling, The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory, and the Death of Wild Culture (Gibsons: Nightwood, 2007). Hardbound, 255 pp, $29.95. (Reviewed by Robert G. May)
Daniel Francis, Ed., Imagining British Columbia: Land, Memory, and Place (Vancouver: Anvil, 2008). Paperbound, 216 pp., $18.00;
Christine Lowther and Anita Sinner, Eds., Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place (Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2008). Paperbound, 282 pp., $24.95. (Both reviewed by Nicholas Bradley)
Laurie Ricou, Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory (Edmonton: NeWest, 2007). Paperbound, 263 pp., $34.95. (Reviewed by Mike Matthews).
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| Cover art: |
David Hlynsky, Neomagnetic Flux
1992 Colour Print, 40.6 cm x 50.8 cm
Naturae Humanae Series
University of Victoria |
