Contents: Incident for Katherine (p. 3); A portrait for Mariko and Natsuko (p.3); Tableau for Annalee Westheim (p.4); Portrait for Garrison Upham (p.5); Portrait for Kristelle Dejeune (p. 6); Noctuary for Lazenby Horton (p. 6); Penultimate Tableau for Kristelle (p. 7); Poem dedicated to Helen Wells (p.7); Tableau for Etherspear Wugbyson (p.10); Noctuary for Lousandra Ellerton (p. 10); Nocturne for Amanda (reprint) (p. 11); At the Tea House (reprint) (p.12); Portrait for Leonora (reprint) (p.13); Letter to Wallace (reprint) (p. 14); Another portrait for Maria (reprint) (p.15); Summer carnival (reprint) (p. 16)
Cover: photograph by author in 1979 of fossil coral (Lithostrotionella) near summit of Mount Stoney Squaw
Contents: Portrait for Lucinda (p.2); Recollection in June (p.3); Vision for Nigel (p.4); Memoir for Denise (p.5); Tableau for Erin (p.6); Toward the adoration of reality (p.7); Memoir for Laetitia (p.8)
Cover: photograph of (left to right) Bill Ward, Annie Ward, and Kay Ward (the author’s mother) on the summit ridge of Sulphur Mountain about 1920; weather station in background; object above weather station is dirt on photo
Contents: (one copy signed by author); Portrait of old age (revision of poem previously titled “Portrait for Sandra) (p.1); I’ll call the surveyor tomorrow (revision)(p.2); Noctuary for Helena Saddington (revision) (p.3); August at the Cemetery Tea House (p.4); After the holiday(for Jenna)(p.5); A portrait for Victoria (p.5); Noctuary for Jacobson Penner (p.6); Metropolis (for Leanna)(p.6); Noctuary for Lathom Crittenden (p.7); Noctuary for Lathom Srigley (p.7); Tableau for Nigel Dunn (p.8); Esplanade of divinity (for Gisela) (p.8); Daydream (for Kathleen)(p.9); Ode to Natalie (p.9); Story for Etherspear Ghently (p.10); Noctuary for Hermione Grafton (p.11); Otter Street (for Miranda)(p.11); A lament in March (p.12); The Saturday adventure (p.13); Ode to a sunny day (p.14); Penultimate letter to Kezia Upton (p.14); An incident in early June (p.15); One vernal portrait for Mary (p.16); One more portrait for Bridget Hawthorne (p.17); Another memoir for Nathan (p.18); A noctuary for Andzia (p.19); One portrait for Nigel Westfall (p.19); A portrait for Nigel Westlock (p.20); That old Tyrolean dream (p.21); Carrot Creek (for Jane)(p.22); Tableau in the desert (p.23); Portrait of July for Wallace (p.23); The warning (for Astrid)(p.24); The great trash dump(p.25); Ah, when I was young (p.26); The things that are no more (revision)(p.26); Another noctuary in memory of her (revision)(p.27); Tableau for Jessop Dunn-Easton (p.28); Experience in November (for Kazimiera)(p.28); Last narrative for Lilia (p.29); Autumn vision (for Nathaniel)(p.29); Not long after her funeral (p.30)
Cover: photograph by author looking south from Mount Thompson in evening in 1979; Mount Hector in distance on left; Margo McTaggart standing on other peak of Thompson on right
Contents: End of a love affair (p.3); Poem in spring for Lucinda Mayhope (p.3);Meditation in spring (p.4); Incident in late May (p.5); We are etched upon darkness (p.6); A Banff moment (p.7); Memoir for Kathleen and Mary (reprint) (p.8); Some kind of Saturday (reprint) (p.9); Another portrait for Pat (reprint) (p.10); Nocturne for Kathleen (reprint) (p.11); Noctuary for Kathleen (reprint) (p.12)
Cover: photograph by author of Triassic ammonite in flower bed at home of Kenneth Bunn in Banff
Contents: (one copy signed by author); Incident for Jennifer Weston (p.3); A portrait in June (p.4); One portrait for Basil Roehampton-Northrup (p.5); Adventure for Natalia Von Humboldt (p.6); Sermon for Leander Oldstone (p.7); Tableau for Natalie Westbrook-Wassermann (p.7); Noctuary for Wyndham Saddington (p.8); Portrait of summer for Adrian (p.8); Portrait for Elmira Bracebridge (p.9); Tableau for Littleton Sundergaard (p.10); Portrait for Halliwell Dunn (p.10); Letter to Eleanor de Vavenarches (p.11); Noctuary for Ada Westfall (p.12); Portrait of a June morning (p.12); The elderly alpinist (p.13); Tableau for Ilya Gunning (p.14); Poem for householder (p.14); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (p.15); September dialogue (revision)(p.15); Tableau for Sandeman Westbrook (p.16); Another reckoning (p.16); One portrait for Lorna (revision)(p.17); The Cave and Basin (p.18); Long ago (for John) (p.18); Darkling meditation (p.19); One more narrative for Pelagia Sunderland (p.19); Larch Valley (for Judd) (p.20); Valencian interlude (p.21); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.22); Life in three-quarter time (p.23); Noctuary for Alma Tidswell (p.24); Noctuary for Melinda Dunn (p.25); Tableau for Jackson Weston-Murtha (p.25); Plato’s last night-dream (p.26); Memoir for Jacob Boulton-Smith (p.26); Crossing that pass (p.27); Stewart Canyon adventure (p.28); Another portrait for Eva (revision) (p.29); Tableau for Jason, Greg and Wellington (p.30); Tableau for Jack Dunn-Bridgeman (p.31); The second portrait for Miyuki (p.32)
Cover: photograph by author of lane joining Otter street and Muskrat St. in 100 block; looking west from Otter street
Contents: (both copies signed by author); Penultimate tableau for Nathan Ostgaard (p.3); Tableau for Exeter Sentance (p.3); Noctuary for Tanya Everson (p.4); Tableau for Muriel Eastmonde (p.5); The second portrait for Miyuki Sato (revision)(p.6); Meditation for Eli Braunshweig (p.7); Letter to Latimer Sansonby (p.7); Noctuary for Louis Sexton (p.8); Tableau for Nigel Wakelyn (p.9); Tableau for Jim and Kay Burles (p.9);Penultimate Noctuary for Hermione Fenton (revision of poem previously titled “Noctuary for Hermione Fenton)(p.10); Letter to Audrey Cawthorne (p.11); A drop of rain is the truth (p.12); Another portrait for Nigel Upton (p.12); One portrait for Annabelle Luscar (p.13); Another September adventure (p.14); September entreaty (for Louise) (p.14); Tableau for Vincent (p.15); Another portrait of October (p.15); One more narrative for Barrymore Hamilton (p.16); Yes, rejoice—we conquer! (p.17);
Memoir for Lucinda, Nigel, and Helen (p.17); Memoir for Lathom Dunn (p.18); On Cascade Mountain (p.19); Another adventure in August (p.20); One more portrait for Nathaniel Von Ostmark(p.20); Portrait for Gertrude Morstein (p.21); Experience near Banff (p.21); Melancholy moments (p.22); A wind-song (p.22); The honeysuckle (p.23); Banff, 1900 (p.24); The cherry tree (p.24); Yearnings in springtime(p.25); Portrait for springtime (p.26); Tableau for Nathaniel Dunstan (p.27); Episode in spring (for Kathleen)(p.27); A letter to Katharine (p.28)
Cover: photograph by author of Kay and Jim Burles on horseback along Carrot Creek circa 1990; buttress of Mount Peechee in background
Pertains to the works of Gordon Burles, a poet of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The poet includes works exclusively from the Banff area and covers topics pertaining to nature, places and people.
Notes
Annotated – the author has signed the inside front page with the following, “Best wishes Liz and Ron, from Gordon Burles”
Accession Number
2017.8683
Call Number
05.1 B92c Pam
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The URL is linked to Gordon Burles archival fonds held at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Contents: Crossing the pass (p.1); Mt. Rundle twilight (p.2); The old trail (p.3); In the winter forest(p.4); Twilight (p.5); The meeting (p.6); Night-time parting (p.7); Mrs. Lewthwaite’s summer (p.8); Walter Wilcox in Paradise Valley (p.9); September hike (p.10); The night road (p.11); A July walk (p. 12); Exhortation (p.13); Banff dawn (p.14); The meadow (p.15); Elegy (p.16); Autumn at Johnson’s Lake (p.17); The aspens (p.18); Burial (p.19); The unknown woman (p.20); Reflection (p.21); Dusk (p.22); Lost love (p.23); The crocuses (p.24); At the zoo (p.25); Walking home (p.26); Fossil-hunting (p.27); Musings from Mt. Cascade (p.28); Two birches (p.29); Autumn requital (p.30); Manifestation (p.31); Two lovers in spring (p.32); Walter Phillips’ last dream (p.33); Near Boom Lake (p.34); Hypocrisy (p.34); Husband and wife (p.35); Avant-garde artist (p.36); Night adventure (p.37); For Conrad Kain (p.38);
Darkling meditation (p.39); To Edward Thomas (p.40); On the road to Sundance Canyon (p.41); The death of the deer (p.42); Alone (p.43); Summer dusk (p.44); The stream (p.45); Famous thinker (p.46); Menthenuena (p.47); Autumn dawn (p.48); First love (p.49); The mining camp (p.50); For Katherine Mansfield (p.51); Stewart Canyon (p.52); Inglismaldie Creek (p.53); Old Miss Hastings and the Rockies (p.54); Mrs. Wheeler’s garden (revision)(p.55)
Cover: drawing by Wesley Watts, a Banff-born artist
