Excerpts from this book have appeared over the years in the following publications: Arras, Big Allis, Blood and Aphorisms (B+A), Open Letter, Queen Street Quarterly, Sulfur and Blues and True Concussions: Six New Toronto Poets (House of Anansi Press, 1996).
Financial assistance has been kindly provided over the years by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
The epigraph by William Hayley owes its presence in this book to the gracious courtesy of Steve McCaffery.