TRACK ONE: “Mavety Street” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Bruce Meyer:

Bruce Meyer is the author of 77 books of poetry, short stories, nonfiction, memoirs, portrait photographs and textbooks, three of which were national bestsellers. The survivor of a liver transplant and the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie, he is professor of Communications at Georgian College and lives in Barrie with his wife Kerry.

TRACK TWO: “A Pavane for Georgie” and TRACK THIRTEEN: “Daedalus’ Lament” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Giovanna Riccio:

Giovanna Riccio is a prize-winning poet and teacher who thrives on scholarly pursuits. Born in Calabria, Italy, she immigrated to Canada as a child. She graduated from the University of Toronto where she majored in philosophy. She is the author of Vittorio (Lyricalmyrical Press, 2010) Strong Bread (Quattro Books, 2011), and Plastic's Republic (Guernica Editions, 2019) which was a finalist for the 2022 Bressani Literary Prize. Her poems and other writings have appeared in national and international publications and numerous anthologies. giovannariccio.com

TRACK THREE: “So, Say I” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Micheline Maylor:

Dr. Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Calgary (2016-18). She was awarded the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Award for literary contributions to Alberta in 2022. She is a Walrus talker, a TEDX talker, and she was the Calgary Public Library Author in Residence (2016). Her most recent book, The Bad Wife (U of A Press 2021), won the BPAA Robert Kroetsch Award for best book of Alberta poetry. She was short-listed for the Exile Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry; and she won the Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence for Poetry in Alberta (2019).

TRACK FOUR: “Daylight Shooting in Little Italy” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Luciano Iacobelli:

Luciano Iacobelli (d. 2022) was a Toronto poet, playwright, visual artist, creative writing teacher, event organizer, publisher and editor. The author of six books of poetry and numerous chapbooks, he was also the owner and supervising editor of Quattro Books, a literary press, and the founder of Q Space, a retail and salon space in Toronto's Little Italy. Iacobelli's books have been published by Guernica Press, Mantis Editores, Quattro, and various fine presses; his work has been translated into Spanish and Italian. Iacobelli also operated LyricalMyrical press, known for producing handcrafted poetry chapbooks featuring dozens of poets, writers, and artists, which are found in special collections across North America.

TRACK FIVE: “Because You Squeezed Back” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Irving Layton:

Canadian poet Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, or Irving Layton (1912-2006), was born in Romania, but raised in Montreal.  Becoming a poet as a teen, Layton was the volcanic centre of modern Canadian poetry, 1940s-1960s. Layton’s lush, elemental poems explore sexual and spiritual intimacy, blending gusto and tenderness, plus vitriol and Byronic sass. He is the poet of  Mediterranean zest, bridging Israel and Italy, Greece and Spain. His numerous poetry collections include The Black Huntsmen (1951), A Red Carpet for the Sun (1959), The Pole-Vaulter (1974), The Selected Poems of Irving Layton (1977), Final Reckoning: Poems 1982-1986 (1987), and A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected Poems 1945-82. His honors included two Nobel Prize nominations, Italy’s Petrarch Prize for Poetry, the Governor General’s Award, a Senior Arts Fellowship, etc. When Layton died in 2006, one of his pallbearers was poet and singer Leonard Cohen: Once his student, always his close friend.

TRACK SIX: “The Father’s Dream” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Libby Scheier:

Libby Scheier (1946-2000): Born in Brooklyn, New York, Scheier was educated at Sarah Lawrence College (BA 1968) and at State University of New York at Stony Brook, (MA in English 1971). She moved to Toronto in 1975 after living in France, California, and Israel. She held several offices in The Writers' Union of Canada, and as a member of P.E.N. International (Canadian, English-Speaking), served on its Writers-in-Prison Committee. Also a member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Modern Languages Association, and the Canadian Union of Educational Workers, Scheier believed fiercely in the link between poetics and ethics, writing and social justice.  Her book, Sky: A Poem in Four Pieces (1990), merges these interests powerfully.

TRACK SEVEN: “2641 Fuller Terrace” and TRACK EIGHT: “Self-Composed”- Lyrics by Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke:

The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke hails from "Africadia." A scholar of African-Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto, Clarke has also taught at Duke, McGill, and Harvard. His recognitions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Fellowship (US), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General's Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, the Premiul Poesis (Romania), the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), and International Fellow Poet of the Year, Encyclopedic Poetry School [2019] (China). His prized titles include Whylah Falls (1990, translated into Chinese), Beatrice Chancy (1999, translated into Italian), Execution Poems (2000), and Blues and Bliss (2009).

TRACK NINE: “On Silence” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Ayesha Chatterjee:

Born and raised in Kolkata, India, Ayesha Chatterjee has lived in five countries on three continents. She is the author of the poetry collections The Clarity of Distance and Bottles and Bones. Her work has appeared in journals across the world and been translated into several languages. Chatterjee is a past president of the League of Canadian Poets. She lives in Toronto.

TRACK TEN: “Alternating Current” - Lyrics by Chinese poet Xiaoyuan Yin:

Yin Xiaoyuan ( “殷晓媛” in Chinese) is the founder of Encyclopedic Poetry School (est. 2007). She is a member of Writers’ Association of China, Translators’ Association of China and Poetry Institute of China. She has published 11 books including 5 poetry collections: Ephemeral Memories, Beyond the Tzolk’in, Avant-garde Trilogy, Agent d’ensemencement des nuages and Cloud Seeding Agent (Pinyon Publishing, USA). Her works have been translated into 50+ languages and published in magazines and included in anthologies.  Also a mountaineering enthusiast, she has travelled across China thrice between 2018 and 2023 to savour remarkable experiences with great mountains.

TRACK ELEVEN: “I Call” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Choucri Paul Zemokhol:

Choucri Paul Zemokhol has conspired with vowels and consonants to concoct the chapbooks Apocrypha and No hope, No help, No tea. He has also fabricated a full length book, A River at Night.  He was last seen in Toronto, in league with other contrivers.

TRACK TWELVE: “Coda: The Blues” - Lyrics by Canadian poet Al Moritz:

Luciano Iacobelli (d. 2022) was a Toronto poet, playwright, visual artist, creative writing teacher, event organizer, publisher and editor. The author of six books of poetry and numerous chapbooks, he was also the owner and supervising editor of Quattro Books, a literary press, and the founder of Q Space, a retail and salon space in Toronto's Little Italy. Iacobelli's books have been published by Guernica Press, Mantis Editores, Quattro, and various fine presses; his work has been translated into Spanish and Italian. Iacobelli also operated LyricalMyrical press, known for producing handcrafted poetry chapbooks featuring dozens of poets, writers, and artists, which are found in special collections across North America.

TRACK THIRTEEN: “Daedalus’ Lament” [see TRACK TWO]