140 pp; 6×9 9780920999158 (softcover) 9780920999134 (pdf) $20.00 by Earle Peach Music is a language that transcends boundaries. In this unique collection of songs and stories, musician and activist Earle Peach shows us how we too can understand, and maybe even speak, the language of song. Questions to the Moon guides the reader through Earle’s…
“As lawyers we don’t have to take any responsibility to construct a world. We only have to destroy another’s construction. We say no. We are the civilized, comfortable, well-heeled carriers of no. We thrive on it. Other races die.” The author has given permission for this booklet to be downloaded and photocopied in its full…
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…
$18.95, originally published by Press Gang Publishers In a world of “experts” and “professionals” it’s rare that we hear the true voices of people living in poverty. Baxter’s straight up accounts of poor communities, grass roots activism and initiatives for change are complemented by current statistics on poverty in Canada. Baxter includes interview with other…
Broadside, 5×8, folded. $5.00 “Dying is not on an activist’s agenda, the act of surrendering, acceptance giving up for the unknown” Jannit Rabinovitch, a long-time community activist, died in January of 2007 of cancer. She was a co-founder of PEERS (Prostitute Empowerment Education and Resource Society) and brought women escaping violence and homelessness together to…
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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…
56 pp; 6×9 0-920999-09-3; $14.95 Danny, a young fisherman from Nova Scotia, found out that he was HIV positive and decided to hitchhike to Vancouver to find his mother who abandoned him as a child. The play unfolds as we see his life on the street in Vancouver, the community he finds there, and the…
Originally published by Press Gang Publishers. Poster; 17×22; $10.00 TO SEE MORE OF MOISEIWITSCH’s work go to her web site
Poster; 17×22, full colour; $10.00. Originally published by Press Gang Publishers. Poster reads: “Class consciousness is knowing which side of the fence you are on. Class analysis is figuring out who is there with you.”
Poster. Originally published by Press Gang Publishers. 17×22, b&w, $10.00 This poster was published as a fundraiser for Press Gang in the 1980s so they could publish a book of Carel Moiseiwitsch’s work (the book was never published). TO SEE MORE OF MOISEIWITSCH’s work go to her web site
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…
this is the temporary excerpt for Halfway to The East by Marusya Bociurkiw