Soft Geography

Winner of the 2008 ReLit Award for Poetry and Shortlisted for the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.

Gillian Wigmore

"What a wonderful, fresh voice Gillian Wigmore brings to the page. These wise poems know the push and pull within family. They reveal the tender truths behind the rough edges of small-town life. Her voice resonates with authenticity, and whether she is writing about a near drowning or ice fishing, she is ultimately writing about the complications of love. These are poems you will not soon forget." —Robert Hilles, Governor General’s Award-winner for Poetry

Poetry
978-1-894759-23-6
1-894759-23-0
paper, 84 pages
poetry

Available for $15.95 from Harbour Publishing

All Things Said & Done

Marita Dachsel

Marita Dachsel’s debut collection is a visceral exploration of the moments of life that stand out in the pages of a family album and the intervals of memory. She playfully and poignantly documents first crushes, first times, weddings and trips across town, across water, and across continents. Dachsel perceptively sprinkles these moments with the details photographs don’t reveal, as in “Dispatches from an Impending Marriage”: Don’t talk to me about photographers./ Nothing will capture this. A printed paper/ will only mock—/ a gaudy misrepresentation/ a plastic jesus on the mantle—/ two dimensions of fabric, teeth and skin.

Poetry
978-1-894759-22-9
1-894759-22-2
paper, 80 pages
poetry

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Disaster on Mount Slesse
The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash

Betty O'Keefe & Ian Macdonald

Mount Slesse, a jagged 2,500-metre peak near Chilliwack BC known locally as "The Fang," lived up to its evil reputation on December 9, 1956, when Trans Canada Airlines Flight 810 slammed into it, killing all 62 aboard. For five months nobody knew what happened. Flight 810 had just disappeared into the night. Adding to the sensation was the fact that the flight carried five professional football players fresh from the CFL All Star game in Vancouver and a mystery man by the name of Kwan Song who was rumoured to be carrying a sizeable fortune in cash. Finally on May 10, 1957, a diminutive female mountaineer named Elfrida Pigou discovered the gruesome crash site, setting off a stampede of macabre treasure hunters. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of this historic tragedy, Betty O'Keefe and Ian Macdonald have written a gripping, blow-by-blow account of western Canada’s worst aviation disaster, carefully examining its context, causes and aftermath.

Non-fiction
978-1-894759-21-2
1-894759-21-4
paper, 6 x 9, 176 pages

Available for $21.95 from Harbour Publishing

Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats

Jack Boudreau

Forbidding canyons, raging rapids and menacing rocks—this was the daily challenge that faced whitewater men who worked the wild rivers and creeks to bring freight and supplies to northern BC in the years before the Grand Trunk Railway. In particular, the Grand Canyon of British Columbia's Fraser River was infamous for swallowing at least 200 luckless occupants of rafts and small craft between the years 1862–1921. Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats: Whitewater Freighting on the Upper Fraser is the story of the "Canyon Cats" who made their living running the Grand Canyon and other equally dangerous waterways.

BC History
978-1-894759-20-5
1-894759-6
paper, photos, 6 x 9
non-fiction, local history

Available for $18.95 from Harbour Publishing