New Trade Books

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.

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........