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Memoir & BiographyWords, Words, Words: Essays & MemoirsGeorge Bowering • New Star BooksWords, Words, Words is a wide-ranging collection of literary essays that astonish the reader with their candor,insight, and generosity. Their subjects span the sublime to the ridiculous—from the inarticulate nature ofgrief to a modest proposal for the uses of the dead. They constitute a history of the education of Canada’sfirst Poet Laureate: from his adolescent dreams of becoming a writer and his recognition of the disciplinethat requires, to the ongoing feud between the TISH authors and the self-appointed nationalist police,Bowering shares lessons learned in a lifetime of exercising his craft.An officer of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, and Canada’s first modern daypoet laureate, George Bowering has won two Governor General’s Awards, and the British ColumbiaLieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. He lives in Vancouver, where he intends to writeevery day as long as they let him.Key words: Literature & language, Writing & reading, Literary studies, poetry, Al Purdy, bpNicholISBN-13: 9781554200665paperback / 232 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $19.00October 2012Father August Brabant: Saviour or ScourgeJim McDowell • Ronsdale PressThis insightful biography of the first Roman Catholic missionary to live and work on Vancouver Island’swest coast during the colonial period tells of the priest’s attempts to impose Western values, and of thedetermined struggle of the First Nations to resist his teachings. With 40 b&w photos and maps.Jim McDowell is a veteran British Columbia historian. McDowell also worked for twenty years as afreelance writer and independent reporter; he wrote hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles forCanadian and US publications.Key words: Biography, Canadian regional history – Vancouver Island, Catholic history in Canada,Indigenous resistance, Colonial history, Archival materialISBN-13: 9781553801894paperback / 500 pp6 x 9 / $24.95October 2012With a Closed FistKathy Dobson • Véhicule PressIn the Point St. Charles of the author’s childhood people move for one of two reasons: their apartment ison fire or the rent is due. Starting in 1968, eight-year-old Kathy Dobson shares her early years growing upin Montreal’s Point St. Charles neighbourhood. She offers a glimpse into the culture of extreme poverty,giving an insider’s view into a neighbourhood then described as the “toughest in Canada.”Kathy Dobson has a BA from the University of Waterloo and two certificates in social work. A journalist,her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, and the Montreal Gazette, andshe has produced several short documentaries for CBC Radio. She lives in Waterloo, Ontario.Key words: Memoir, Urban and inner-city studies, Regional identity – MontrealISBN-13: 9781550653236paperback / 224 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $19.95October 2011Literary Press Group / Congress 2013 29