53 pp; $5.95, paper “This play is about very modest people, with modest desires, who seem to know that contentment arises from gratitude and a sense of one’s identity, reinforced by memory and companionship.” — Canadian Literature, #116, Spring 1988 “It is refreshing to read a play that, while showing the physical frailties of old…
It is rare for working-class women to be given a voice in literature; Helen Potrebenko has long had the reputation of giving women this voice. From the waitress in the title story, to a fictitious interview with a not so fictitious author (herself) on CBC’s Morningside, Potrebenko once again makes people the subject, not the…
Oker is a Beaver Indian from Peterson Crossing, British Columbia. “Remember” is a poignant and timely poem about growing up in a residential school, and about how white society is now encouraging her to reclaim her culture: How can I, I replied. You pounded these sinful ways out of me Remember? Broadside Illustration by Russell…
5 1/2 x 8 1/2; 14 pp, saddle-stitched chapbook. 1993 ISBN 0-920999-24-7, $3.50 “As Canada attempts to entrench self government into the constitution, aboriginal people within the work force in and outside the justice system will continue to face resistance within the institutions that serve … this is an acknowledgement of those who do the…
ISBN 0-920999-28-X; $4.50. 1995 “Whether I were testifying at this trial or not, my name would come up over and over again as that woman whose books are seized at the border, and I have no defence against it. And I bitterly resent the attempt to marginalize, trivialize and even criminalize what I have to…
5 1/2 x 8 1/2; 16 pp saddle-stitched chapbook ISBN 0-902999-30-1 $4.50 1996 “One does then have to look at another need for knowledge — that knowledge of why things do not get done that seem to be the appropriate, useful, honourable and decent thing to do … the real problem for any community group…
168 pp; $12.95, paper ISBN 0-920999-0-0 A woman encounters a fag hag, a medieval queen and a seventeenth-century voyageur in an airport lounge…The fall of the Berlin Wall becomes a backdrop for an international lesbian love-triangle. Sexy and funny, these stories move across identities and communities, from Baba’s kitchen and suburban shopping malls to the…
9 x 13 broadside Designed and printed letter press by Glenn Goluska at imprimerie dromadaire $20.00 Bill Hoffer was both a controversial and respected dealer in antiquarian books and Canadian modern first editions. He was also a good friend to many book people in Canada; poet Susan Musgrave wrote this poem for Hoffer after visiting…
120 pp; $14.95, paper; ISBN 0-920999-32-8 Cassette: $8.95 “How old is youth How young is age How false is truth How quiet rage?” Second Thoughts is Elise Goldsmith’s most recent collection of poetry. Her spare, elliptical verse gives rare insight into the daytime shadows and night-time illuminations of a woman writer in her aging years….
52 pp; saddle-stitched chapbook; $8.50 ISBN 0-920999-34-4 “They asked me a long time ago to write about you; I tried but the writing was just a flat piece of paper whereas you were still round and filled out and vital and would not flat out to fit on paper. I could not explain in writing…
CD $15.99; 20% discount for 10 or more Proceeds will be donated to the Carnegie Centre Music Program in Vancouver, British Columbia. Much like a kobzar, Roman Bociurkiw performed across Canada for many years, until finally settling down in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He passed away in his sleep on July 5, 2002. This CD brings…