67 pp; $10.00 ISBN 0-920999-00-X This is Potrebenko’s first collection of verse, published in 1985. I hope it’s a restaurant and not a bank, climbing that jesus great hill after Revelstoke. I hope it’s summer and not winter in Rogers Pass. Before I get too old for walking, I’d like to get to Newfoundland. I’ve…
175 pp; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 ISBN 0-88974-047-X $15.00 “These are stories about ordinary Canadians, the kind that used to be told on winter evenings when the work was done. They are not intended to be representative but are about people I interviewed or talked to or saw or heard about. The intention is…
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$10.00 plus shipping charges. In 2009, the Globe and Mail discovered Helen Potrebenko’s Taxi as a “Buried Treasure”. “In the 1970s and ’80s, Helen Potrebenko was a cherished and important Vancouver writer, well known for her early writing in Pedestal, Canada’s first women’s-liberation newspaper, and for her numerous books that included short stories, novels, poems…
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…
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…