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In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry
Co-edited with Sandy Shreve Read More →
Vancouver Reading
North Vancouver, BC: 32 Books with Shannon Stewart (Penny Dreadful) (date to be decided) Contact: Deb McVittie (deb@32books.com) Read More →
Emily Carr: Rebel Artist
“The more isolated Emily felt from her family, the more she clung to the idea of painting. No doubt her sisters saw it as a mere hobby, a pastime. But Emily’s dream of becoming an artist was nurtured by the French painter C.A. de L’Aubinière and his English artist-wife, Georgina, who probably taught Emily briefly in 1886. She was in awe of them because they were the first ‘real’ artists... [Read more]
Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Journey with Emily Carr
#44 Emily talks of Freud. I hate him. It was this new man, Freud, who made them see only sex in my paintings. But Emily slows me down, shows me the flowering of ribs and pelvis I painted today. Here is your desire, she says. See how you have wished it upon paper. It is a woman’s mind, a woman’s hand, a woman’s voice and you didn’t even know. See how it shines from the inside, out. Kate Braid,... [Read more]
Covering Rough Ground
These Hips Some hips are made for bearing children, built like stools square and easy, right for the passage of birth. Others are built like mine. A child’s head might never pass but load me up with two-by-fours and watch me bear. When the men carry sacks of concrete they hold them high, like boys. I bear mine low, like a girl on small, strong hips built for the birth of buildings. Read More →
Red Bait! Struggles of a Mine Mill Local
“Al King was an organizer, Local 480 (Trail, British Columbia) president and eventually western Board member of the International Union of Mine-Mill & Smelterworkers, a trade union that was – depending on your point of view – a Communist hotbed or one of the most progressive unions in North American history. He tells a fascinating story, unrecorded elsewhere, of the growth and challenges... [Read more]
To This Cedar Fountain
Untitled These trees worked hard to get up here one ring at a time. The prize is sky and the freedom of birds. Only three have reached the high blue dome and now careen like honey bees hover like hummingbirds one minute soar like eagles the next. These trees threaten to pull their own tops off they stretch so hard, risking everything to touch heaven. Read More →
The Fish Come in Dancing: Stories from the West-Coast Fishery
A collection of interviews of eight of British Columbia’s fishermen – including one fisherwoman – who still work in the rapidly disappearing fishing industry off British Columbia’s west coast. ”Meanwhile on the beach, the beach man had tied the net to a tree. I guess it was a good two-foot around. Just at the right time, the tide changed. Old Frankie says, ‘Now you’re gonna catch... [Read more]
