This book collects 25 of the essays that were presented at the conference, as well as over 40 black and white reproductions of photographs relating to Bishop's life.

In this essay, Peter Sanger considers the imaginative implications arising from the fact that a near-derelict rural road's name is spelled differently on each of its ends.

In this unornamented collection of verse, Peter Sanger weaves scientific terms and historic allusions into lines of austere clarity.

Fifteen poems that combine archaeology and the natural world.

He lives on a farm in South Maitland, Nova Scotia. The trade edition of this book is a 5 x 8-inch, smyth-sewn paperback bound in card stock with a letterpress-printed jacket. The text is printed offset on laid paper.

"The tutelary spirit in Aiken Drum is an archetypal, mercurial shape-shifter whose name gives the collection its title," says Sanger. "Originally, the character Aiken Drum appears in an old Scottish nursery rhyme of uncertain origin.