World of Curiosities

Excerpts from “Half-hanged Mary,” “Up,” and “Waiting” from Morning in the Burned House: New Poems by Margaret Atwood. In the U.S.: Copyright © 1995 by Margaret Atwood. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. In Canada: Copyright © O. W. Toad. McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

“Twelve Songs: VIII, At last the secret is out,” copyright 1936, 1937, and © renewed 1964 by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood; from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from Vapour Trails by Marylyn Plessner (2000). Used by permission of Stephen Jarislowsky.