Includes biographies of Charles Mair, Charles Sangster, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Charles Heavysege, Archibald Lampman, D.C. Scott, Bliss Carman, Charles G.D. Roberts, William Wilfred Campbell, W.W.E. Ross, Raymond Knister, Dorothy Livesay, E.J. Pratt, A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, A.M. Klein, Leo Kennedy, Robert Finch, Earle Birney, Irving Layton, Louis Dudek, Raymond Souster, Miriam Waddington, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Avison, Ralph Gustafson, Anne Wilkinson, P.K. Page, Al Purdy, Phyllis Webb, James Reaney, Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, bill bissett, Dennis Lee, Gwendolyn MacEwen, D.G. Jones, Patrick Lane, Margaret Atwood, John Newlove, Eli Mandel, Robert Kroetsch, Joe Rosenblatt, and Leonard Cohen.