<p><i>Always Now, Collected Poems of Margaret Avison</i>, encompasses in three volumes all of the published books, from <i>Winter Sun</i> (1960) to <i>Concrete and Wild Carrot</i> (2002), and is framed by a gathering of uncollected and new poems respectively. When complete, <i>Always Now</i> will present all of the poems, up to 2002, that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve. <i>Volume One</i> extends from the uncollected poems to Avison's translations of Hungarian poems, and includes <i>Winter Sun</i> and <i>The Dumbfounding</i>. Besides the uncollected surprises, two of them dating to high school days and first published in <i>Hermes</i>, Toronto's Humberside Collegiate literary magazine, there are the loved and familiar early poems, just as fresh now as they were then, from which certain wonderful lines still jump out: `Nobody stuffs the world in at your eyes./ The optic heart must venture'; `In the mathematics of God/ there are percentages beyond one hundred.' Margaret Avison's poems have warmed the hearts and enlarged the thinking of two generations of Canadian readers.</p>