Do you read me? / George Elliott Clarke -- Taking the dog for a read / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- The grammar of life / Yann Martel -- Learning to read / Catherine Hunter -- On my workroom wall / Al Purdy -- L'étalage des dieux / Denise Brassard -- Lieutenant Lúkas's cat / John Metcalf -- Seeing what you're reading / Barbara Hodgson -- Into the maze of meaning / Fraser Sutherland -- Writing the novel I'm reading / Nicole Marcotic -- The doom of reading? / Brian Fawcett -- Dé-- lire / Marco Micone -- This reading woman / Aritha Van Herk -- One makes (the) difference / Fred Wah -- Deflecting nervousness / Lynn Coady -- Reading William New -- Transport me / Catherine Bush -- An apology from an un-abstracted reader / George McWhirter -- Les trouvailles de la voix / Hélène Monette -- On public readings / Greg Hollingshead -- First reading / Tim Lilburn -- The meeting place / Madeleine Thien -- Our own literature / Tomson Highway -- De beaux rêves / Louis Dupré -- Reading for writing for pleasure / Douglas Barbour -- "Geronimo!" / Marnie Woodrow -- Another life / E.D. Blodgett -- Still living below my skin / Lillian Allen -- The nibbler / Nick Bantock -- L'illetrée / France Théoret -- My favourite R / George Bowering -- The reader as co-creator / Erika Ritter -- Such fun, such fun / John Newlove -- The spirit of the time / Mavis Gallant -- L'alphabet / Jacques Godbout -- Feeding the boys in the basement / Gail Bowen -- A brief history of reading / Wayson Choy -- The signer / Margaret Atwood -- Places deeper than language / Jay Ruzesky -- Rereading my favourite poets for glosas / P.K. Page -- Reading and voice / Don Coles.

L'ivresse du livre / Nicole Brossard -- Textappeal and censorship / Josef Skvorecky -- At home with reading / Adwoa Badoe -- Critical as creative writing / Roy Miki -- Euphoria / Elaine Kalman Naves -- Audience / Andrew Pyper -- Fécondité austère / Marie-Claire Blais -- As to why the copy-editor of Daedalus, the journal of the American academy of arts and sciences, found a subject/verb disagreement in my (brilliant) contribution / Leon Rooke -- The reader as writer, the writer as reader / Mary Di Michele -- Body, reading / Colin Browne -- The long, slow read / Gabriella Goliger -- L'aiguise-crayon / Émile Martel -- Portrait of an artist as a country / Linda Rogers -- Reading without a purpose / John Ralston Saul -- La flèche du temps / Louky Bersianik -- Giving voice to words / Patrick Lane -- A reader's brief biography / Lorna Crozier -- Bushpoet / Marvin Francis -- On literacy and reading / Marilyn Bowering -- La lecture / Naïm Kattan -- Unmitigated by any artifice / Linda Spalding -- Photograph / Michatel Ondaatje -- Reading Ondaatje / Michael Crummey -- A true story about reading / Caroline Adderson -- Pour allonger le fil de la mémoire / Abla Farhoud -- Bears don't dance / Alan Twigg -- Paolo and Francesca / Phyllis Webb -- Dr. Seuss visits the outports / Donna Morrisey -- A liberating destiny / Rober Kroetsch -- The joy and comfort of a well-stocked library / Alison Gordon -- If you get lost in a forest stay still and listen / Richard Van Camp -- La petite Madeleine / Yolande Villemaire -- Unexpected twist / David Adams Richards -- Along with a book / Elizabeth Hay -- What are you laughing at? / Rabindranath Maharaj -- Reading to hold ... / Anne Michaels -- Sweeter than all the world / Rudy Wiebe -- La plus décisive / Marie-Sissi Labrèche -- Reading/voice / Patrick Friesen -- A child's garden of books / Katherine Govier -- The best of times / David Bergen.

Strange animals / Natalee Caple -- Reading/another space / Cyril Dabydeen -- Les partitions et le missel / Suzanne Jacob -- Return to Babel / David Williams -- Reading the case of Domitilio / Rosemary Sullivan -- Leaves of grass / Norman Ravvin -- Family reading / Frances Itani -- Le loup et la lecture / Pierre Nepveu -- Imagining the truth / Denise Chong -- Dickensian coincidence / Douglas Glover -- Saving our lives / Joan Barfoot -- Keeping alive a sense of wonder / Nino Ricci -- Ghostwriter / Christl Verduyn -- Reading what is / Robert Bringhurst -- L'inflammation du poème en public / Laurent Poliquin -- Home away from home / Seymour Mayne -- The door / Stephanie Bolster -- Cat and book / Bill Richardson -- Cravings / Anabel Lyon -- Intergenerational reading / Robert Priest -- Balzac et moi / Régine Robin -- Selling prose with cons / Spider Robinson -- Guilty pleasures / Lisa Grekul -- Out of isolation / Barbara Scott -- Dark of the moon / Don McKay -- Poppies / Jan Zwicky -- Lecture à vie / Pierre Ouellet -- What, in reading, provides the possibility of revelation? / Méira Cook -- World of a million poems / Colin Morton -- The spark remembered / Robyn Sarah -- Storytelling is storytelling / Drew Hayden Taylor -- Jalousie / Josée Bilodeau -- Adventures in poetry / Rob McLennan -- This odd connection / Daphne Marlatt -- Eyesight to the blind / Mark Anthony Jarman -- Reading is always / Susan Gillis -- Cas d'espèce / J.R. Léveillé -- Some thoughts about reading, from a lake up north / Nora Gold -- Why Benny used to read / Ven Begamudré -- Reading / Helen Humphreys -- Shelf-life / Alan Cumyn -- Sharing thoughts / Kristjana Gunnars -- Lire me donne naissances / Andrée Lacelle.

Notes from elsewhere / Nancy Lee -- An unalloyed blessing / Guy Vanderhaeghe -- Connections / Sarah Dearing -- Watching thought occur / Ken Babstock -- Dreaming worlds / Rita Donovan -- Toujours / Jean-François Chassay -- Reading and writing my people's truth / Vera Manuel -- Reading to Borges / John Moss -- My favorite pre-school childhood books / Catherine Gildiner -- Universal appeal / Alistair Macleod -- The book / Patricia Young -- Becoming illiterate / Howard Engle -- L'homme inconnu / Maryse Latendresse -- The best school of all / Shyam Selvadurai -- A reverence for the letter / Rhea Tregebov -- Questionable reading / Derk Wynand -- My secret garden / Janet Lunn -- The book as s.c.u.b.a. / Gary Geddes -- Pudeur / Monique Bosco -- Shifting gears / Una Marameswaran -- Thinking of creation (and destruction) : The earth divers / Armand Garnet Ruffo -- On gnawing / Esta Spalding -- When reading is bad for your health / Suzette Mayr -- Le verbe rêver / Claude Beausoleil -- Reading, my drug / Judith Thompson -- The light that fell behind him / Sandra Sabatini -- On sait lire / Roméo Savoie -- Reading as self-help / Sharon Thesen -- Reading/swimming / Kelley Aitken -- Devenir farfelu / Stéphane Despatie -- Her good leg on the floor / K.D. Miller -- A model for life / Sonja Dunn -- Slow reader / John Pass -- Mysteriously and irrevocably altered / Sue Goyette -- The first time / Dennis Cooley -- Annis Minion Long / Roo Borosn -- Rereading Li Bai / Kim Maltman -- Reading as escape, reading as treason / Di Brandt.