Preface / Glen Sorestad -- Poetry's practice of philosophy / Tim Lilburn (2002) -- Every exit is an entrance (A praise of sleep) / Anne Carson (2004) -- Frederick Ward : writing as jazz / George Elliott Clarke (2005) -- Why poetry? / Margaret Atwood (2006) -- The angel of the Big Muddy / Mark Abley (2007) -- Ediacaran and Anthropocene : poetry as a reader of deep time / Don McKay (2008) -- Re-discovering ancient springs : a consideration of metaphorical space / Marilyn Bowering (2009) -- Poetry and community / Anne Simpson (2010) -- Pristine and startled : ways of seeing / Glen Sorestad (2011) -- Coming (back) to poetry / Robert Currie (2012) -- A garden is not a place : poetry and beauty / A.F.Moritz (2013) -- Black voice : context and subtext / Lillian Allen (2014) -- Conversation with the poet/Who didn't know my aunty / Gregory Scofield (2015).