New Trade Books

DANIELA ELZA
Introduction by AISLINN HUNTER

"There is a sweet music and the sensuality of careful attention in Daniela Elza's work, the sort of things by which the world recovers its proper gravity." –Tim Lilburn

"These poems are like the sculpted mindscapes of the Zen garden: evocative, resonant, and serene. They are also delightfully complex, as if the poet with the rake has a sense of humour, is part Zen master, part Trickster, demonstrating with a wink how the wondrously simple and the eminently elaborate reside inside each other."–Aislinn Hunter .....

At The World's Edge

CLAUDIA CORNWALL

This book tells the story of a man and a city. Curt Lang was a legend in Vancouver. An intellectual and a catalyst, Lang’s interests spanned many worlds. As a teenager, he met Malcolm Lowry and became friends with Al Purdy. Excerpts of previously unpublished correspondence between Al Purdy and Curt Lang reveals much about both their characters......

The Life & Art of Mildred Valley Thornton

#4 in the Unheralded Artists of BC series

SHERYL SALLOUM, FOREWORD BY SHERRILL GRACE

The fourth book in the Unheralded Artists of B.C. series. During her lifetime (1890-1967), Mildred Valley Thornton (HON. CPA. FRSA.), was noted nationally and internationally. Accomplished with landscapes and portraits, watercolours and oils, the full story of this distinctive artist is being told for the first time. Born in Ontario, Thornton ....

This is the Moon's Work

New and Selected Poems

DIANA HAYES

This is the Moon’s Work showcases Diana Hayes new work and a selection of poetry from early out-of print books. Diana’s themes are rooted in both the inner and outer worlds of nature and the psyche. Many of her new poems have been inspired by her practice of year-round, ocean swimming. The poems explore the world of Bardo where healing into a new life becomes possible.

the art of breathing underwater, is Cathy Ford's first full-length book of poetry in twenty-one years. She is the author of fourteen books of poetry and numerous chapbooks and folios published by blewointment press,
Intermedia Press, Caitlin Press, Vehicule Press, Harbour Publishing and gynergy books. A former president of the League of Canadian Poets, .....

GURJINDER BASRAN

Everything Was Good-bye centers around Meena, a young Indo Canadian woman growing up in the lower mainland of British Columbia and traces her life as she struggles to assert her independence in a Punjabi community. Raised by her tradition bound widowed mother, Meena knows the freedoms of her Canadian peers can never be hers, but unlike her sisters, she is reluctant to submit to a life that is defined by.....

The Life & Art of George Fertig

#3 in the Unheralded Artists of BC series

MONA FERTIG, INTRODUCTION BY PETER SUCH

George Fertig was a Jungian, a socialist, a symbolist and an outsider. For 40 years he struggled to survive as as artist in Vancouver, British Columbia. Part biography and part memoir, as told by his eldest daughter, this book includes fourteen years of research, interviews, letters and over one hundred and fifty rare photographs.

The Life & Art of Frank Molnar,

Jack Hardman & LeRoy Jensen

#2 in the Unheralded Artists of BC series

EVE LAZARUS, CLAUDIA CORNWALL, WENDY NEWBOLD PATTERSON

Filled with rare art reproductions and artists’ personal photographs, this 2nd book in the series introduces the talent of three BC. artist-mentors who worked and exhibited from the 1950s on in Vancouver, Burnaby, Victoria and Salt Spring Island, yet are known only to a few. Their common bond was their choice not to embrace, chameleon-like, the various artistic trends of the era, but to work passionately towards perfecting their own ‘timeless and individuated styles’.

4 Poets

#1 in the New BC Poets series

DANIELA ELZA, PETER MORIN, AL REMPEL, ONJANA YAWNGHWE

The first book in this series, 4 poets, presents over a dozen new poems by emerging poets Elza, Morin, Rempel & Yawnghwe. Also included are poetry drafts, interviews, poetics, short biographies and author photographs as well as translations of select poems into French, Thai, Bulgarian and Tahltan. These poets have previously appeared in Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry.

The Life And Art of David Marshall

#1 in the Unheralded Artists of BC series

MONIKA ULLMANN, INTRODUCTION BY BROOKS JOYNER

Part biography, part art history, part art commentary and first in the new series: The Unheralded Artists of BC, this book tells the story of a prodigious sculptor whose artistic legacy is known to only a few collectors, fellow sculptors and curators. Illustrated throughout with rare colour photographs, the lively, wide ranging text is based on original interviews, letters and diaries.

Rocksalt

An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry,

edited by Mona Fertig & Harold Rhenisch.

New Poetry and Poetics. The first anthology in 31 years!
"Dynamic, eclectic and groundbreaking."

108 ROCKSALT Poets

Maleea Acker, Joanne Arnott, John Barton, Bill Bissett, Yvonne Blomer,
Allison Blythe, Leanne Boschman, Marilyn Bowering, Kate Braid,
Brenda Brooks, Howard Brown, Trevor Carolan, Ken Cathers,
Karen Chester, Judith Copithorne, Susan Cormier........