Name: Steveston
Brand: Ronsdale Press (CA)
SKU: 9780921870807
Price: 13.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Steveston

By (author): Daphne Marlatt

Published by Ronsdale Press (CA)

In Stock

£13.99

Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Illustrations: b/w photos
ISBN: 9780921870807
Publication Date: 01-Apr-2004

Subjects:
Photographs: collections
Poetry by individual poets
Regional studies
Canada

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A collection of poetry and photographs that reinvents the little village of Steveston, close to Vancouver, Canada -- a fishing village populated at one time by mostly Japanese fishermen and their wives. Splendid black-and-white photographs of the Fraser River, the canneries and the people of Steveston.

Daphne Marlatt , poet, novelist, essayist, oral historian, and Noh dramatist, has been writing and publishing for four decades. Her many titles include Vancouver Poems , Steveston, and most recently, Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now, as well as the novels ZÃ³calo, Ana Historic, and Taken. Her novelistic long poem The Given received the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Award. She was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in 2012.