Caitlin Press
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Halfmoon Bay, BC,
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New Mar 09
Do you have a great story about a BC woman pioneer? We want to hear
about it.
We are also collecting stories about women travelling alone for an upcoming anthology. If you have an adventure story of "Going Alone" please share it.
Women Writers of Northern and North-Central BC!
on going call for submissions.
Details
Caitlin Press is always looking for new stories.
We continue to search for great stories from BC's Central Interior, but we are also on the lookout for stories about and by BC women.
See our Writer's info page for more information.
Caitlin Press is looking for new stories.
We continue to search for great stories from BC's Central Interior, but we are also on the lookout for stories about and by BC women.
See our Writer's info page for more information.
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Clearcut Cause Steve Anderson Set in the wild and wonderful Kootenay region of British Columbia, this novel probes the on-going battle between environmentalists and loggers over the forests both groups love but for very different reasons. Author Steve Anderson has evenly divided the debate, allowing his characters to fully present their perspectives and the reader to decide who is right and who is wrong. But this time, the dispute has catastrophic results. The message is clear: confrontation is not the answer. ( (Sharply drawn characters and a fast-paced plot make Clearcut Cause a must for fiction readers interested in the fate of the ancient forests. 1-894759-07-9 $18.95 |
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The Colour of Water Luanne
Armstrong - Mainstreet 0-920576-70-2 $16.95 |
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Everest
Canada
"The
Canadian Rett Syndrome Association looked for a significant event that
would capture the excitement of not only Canadians, but of people around
the world. This event was the ascent of Mount Everest. Never before
has the highest mountain in the world been climbed for charity." 0-920576-33-8 $10.95 |
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A Northern Woman Jacqueline Baldwin The follow-up to the wildly successful British Columbia bestseller Threadbare Like Lace. In her second volume of poetry, acclaimed writer Jacqueline Baldwin examines life in the North as a poet, feminist and environmentalist. 1-894759-01-X $16.95 |
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Threadbare Like Lace 2nd Edition "Poems that rejoice in the power of women's lives...contemplates the strength of the human soul, and of women's spirit in particular, in times of terror and torment. Throughout this elegant collection, Baldwin refuses to dwell in sorrow; her gaze is directed firmly skyward at the light of hidden potential and future possibility."
- Canadian Book Review Annual
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lan(d)guage
In Ken Belford's fifth book of poetry he takes us on a journey through Canada's roadless north where he has discovered a third world gaze, looking out at industrialism and its impact on a region rich in resources and natural beauty. Lan(d)guage is an unsentimental and non-reactionary perspective, a deep investigation of the psychology of both the electronic revolution and postmodernism. It is also a collective conversation having to do with the mobile geographies of inequality. The poems are a study in the social cost of privilege and what it means to have access to power, surveillance and identity. Poetry Available from Harbour Publishing
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Pathways
into the Mountains
Most of the Ken Belford poems presented here make a social comment. He is an eco-poet who examines the archtypically Canadian conflict between developement and preservation. In the northern Interior, we live on the battlefront. Belford's precise attitude varies slightly from poem to poem, although it is obvious that he favours the preservation side of the conflict. The poems capture, in one conciousness, both sides of the contemporary debate: the need to develope vs the urge to preserve. Living up here it's not theoretical. His personal dividedness is representative of the much larger social division. -Don Precoscy, Dean of Arts and Sciences College of New Caledonia 0-920576-84-2 $14.95 |
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Crazy Man's Creek Winner
of the Jeanne Clark History Award
0-920576-71-0 $15.95 |
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Grizzly Bear Mountain Hot on the heels of his bestseller, Crazy Man's Creek, Boudreau writes his sequel. We go back to the small community of Penny, learn what rural kids did to amuse themselves--mothers wouldn't approve--and then look over Jack's shoulder as he develops his fascination with the grizzly bear, first as a hunter and the as a photographer. The grizzly bear, according to Jack, is not a threatened species, at least not in the McGregor Mountain Range. Through Jack's eyes, we begin to understand and appreciate this marvelous beast. For example, did you know that grizzlies ski? As well as giving us a greater understanding of this magnificent bear, Jack speaks of his love of the rugged mountain country of northern British Columbia where he feels lucky to have lived most of his life. 0-920576-81-8 $18.95 |
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Sternwheelers and Canyon Cats 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.
978-1-894759-20-5 $18.95 |
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Wild & Free by Frank Cooke, as told by Jack Boudreau Boudreau says Wild and Free has "humour, tragedy, a bit of hunting, and lots of fighting." Frank Cooke's own son was killed in a fist fight, but the man who did it is his good friend today. "It was a fair fight," Frank explains. "There wasn't much law in those days, 40-50 years ago," says Boudreau. "They were a different type of people than you ever find today." 1-894759-04-4 $24.95 |
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Wilderness Dreams When
Clara and Hap Bowden moved north from BC's lower mainland in 1951,
little did they know of the adventures that lay in wait for them in
the mountains and forests of northern British Columbia. Over fifty
years later and several careers ranging from big-game guiding to deep-sea
fishing, they are still going strong and still in love with each other--[en
dash] and the northern wilderness. Their latest exploit? Building
an airplane. 0-89475900-1 |
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Finding Ft. George Finding Ft. George is the poetic record of Rob Budde's growing love of Prince George and the Cariboo north-central region of BC. The poems are an act of discovery and they describe the various social, political, historical and environmental systems that Budde encounters with the eye of a patient, astute observer. Engaging in the language of location, each poem explores a place, a time and the process of building a relationship between the two. Sometimes gritty, sometimes ironic, sometimes barely able to see the place at all, the poems are all love poems to a new home—gifts of arrival.
978-1-894759-27-4 $15.95 |
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A Well-Mannered Storm The Glenn Gould Poems
A Well-Mannered Storm is an exploration of correspondence between one of Canada's greatest musicians, Glenn Gould and "K" an admiring fan. Braid weaves an intimate dynamic as K struggles with the loss of her hearing in one ear, finding her greatest comfort in Gould's music-particularly as he plays Bach. Gould's poems don't directly reply, but echo a response as he struggles with his own difficult life; his family, his health, his strong beliefs in how music should be presented and his personal habits considered "eccentric" by an ever-watchful press. K starts to accept her changing world, just as Gould begins a personal spiral downward into disintegration. In his final reflection, Gould acknowledges that in spite of his personal trials, his music now circles the world in the spacecraft, Voyager, as earth's example to other possible life forms of what is most beautiful in this civilization. A Well-Mannered Storm is a striking and masterful volume of poems that does justice to Gould's brilliance, offering insights into his personal life and art, even as it showcases Braid's own virtuosity. Kate is also working on a collection of poetry that is an autobiographical account of the fifteen years she worked as a labourer, apprentice and journey carpenter. Turning Left at the Ladies will be released by Palimpsest Press in Summer 2009.
Poetry Available from Harbour Publishing |
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Chasing Their Dreams Chasing Their Dreams recreates the hardships, harsh land and climate, deep-set racial prejudice, sometimes resulting in violence and little or no financial resources that the early Chinese settlers faced in Northwestern British Columbia. Panning for gold, making ties for the railroad, canning fish, running laundries and restaurants, these people survived despite persecution by the local populace and the provincial and federal governments. Relations with the northern tribes, including reports of trips made by Chinese as early as 458 BC, make this book one of the most thoroughly-researched histories of Chinese settlement in British Columbia.
0-920576-83-4 $18.95 |
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Sojourners in the North Winner of the Jeanne CLark History Award. Hua qiao they called themselves-the Sojourners. Early Chinese settlers to BC lived a shadowy life. Sometimes feared, always misunderstood, these people farmed, mined, and lived in central BC with hopes of returning home rich to their villages. However, they were the victims of crime, beatings and death in a foreign land. Chow brings us forward from those early days of Chinese settlements to present day when Chinese citizens are celebrated for their role in BC's history. 0-920576-62-1 $16.95 |
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A Traveller's Guide to Northern British Columbia Ken Coates and Carin Holroyd This guidebook offers places to eat and stay, things to see and do, while opening a visitor's eyes to the scenery, lifestyles and culture of Northern British Columbia. 0-920576-56-7 paper,
photos, maps, index, 6x9 $18.95 |
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