books n th snow in northern bc kabin brokn in2 books
evreewher being chased n followd in vankouvr go north
lilloett try 2 stay ther ma murray asks 2 see us from th train
arrival she xplains shes th onlee publishr ther n we best go
arriving in north bend a b dick offset masheen dew th huge
occupaysyun issew ther printing hair got caut in th rollrs askd 2
leev go north uv 100 mile stay ther in th bush print print
gestetnr colate stapul ice bag dun ther stay a whil print thn
books by ken west maxine gadd beth jankola jw curry manee
othrs n antholojee magazeen issews hundrids uv writrs hundrids
uv books gestetnr sumhow ancient silk skreen ink going thru
th cut lettrs in th stencil cathy ford candas jane dorsey steven
miller sew manee othrs whn n how did it all start n how did it
finish n what wer sum hi points wch changing galaxee was it
in how did blewointment press get its name

ther wer a numbr uv us poets writrs artists who nowun wud
publish aneewher in th world sew robbee suthrland n lance
farrell n me talking ths selekt a name go thru th dicksyunaree
random fingr fall wher it may blue ointment 1962 first issew
honouring in search of innosence moovee abt artists in
vancouvr len fourrier/jack long nfb producksyun contribs joy
long martina clinton maxine gadd judith copithorne kurt lang
mor n mor 2 cum angels earle birney n dorothy livesay helpd
out gestetnr ink papr universitee peopul wudint give us papr
or supplies we wer mostlee on welfare n 4 me that startid a
twentee yeer publishing adventur printing kollating n stapuling with
in successyun martina clinton bertrand lachance n alan rosen n
oftn by myself n thru all thos yeers angel printr downtown van
kouvr printr george priestman printid th covrs veree oftn even
shulee th insides as things got bettr n it nevr felt like twentee
yeers at th time

th summr 65 issew th yello issew th end uv th world speshul
wch was much latr manee othr antholojeez stan bevington sent
giant amount uv papr by train a gift from toronto blewointpress
was printing manee othr writrs david uu bpNichol d.a.levy gladys
hindmarch rosemary hollingshead al neil margaret atwood
diane di prima pat lowthr gwendolyn macewen evree day printing
kolating stapuling selekting hart broudy lionel kearns dr. wagner
carolyn zonailo my first book we sleep inside each othr all 1965
by bpNichol ganglia press toronto koinsident with fires in th tempul
blewointmentpress /very stone hous ko producksyun th lattr with patrick
lane n jim brown n seymour mayne who each produsd theyr own books
thru very stone house as well as pat lowthr n othrs sew much publish
ing going on th beginnings thn alredee startid thanks 2 th canada council
n all uv us involvd what was nothing a few yeers previous bcame a
veree alive n huge industree involving thousands uv peopul working
2gethr

in th beginning othr magazeens n publishrs wud not publish us as we
wer th downtown poets n mostlee vizual non linear n not cumming
from aneewher n mostlee left wing politikalee in 1970 blewointment
reseevd a small canada council grant n each yeer slite inkreeses pr
formd in tandem with th nu needs bettr producksyun valus evn bound
books wer cumming out uv blewointmentpress thn in 1980 approx th
block grant was cut ths was part uv th life boating uv th small presses
n i went mor in2 solo work rathr thn kollektiv work th emphasis changing
always still wanting 2 b part uv freeing th word th image n thus freeing
th mnd n spirit

sew manee politikul trubuls keep on printing sew manee wundrful times
thousands uv dayze n nites being coverd with ink lettrs spaces within
th phrases i lovd it returning th writing mor 2 konversaysyunal n mor ekstatik
speech its reelee hard 2 beleev th amayzing twentee yeers wun epik sirtinlee
stands out

around 1979 ed murphy hot line show guy startid blasting me n blew
ointmentpress n talonbooks he publishd a book legasy of waste in
govrnment spending an erlee beginning uv th rite wing rise 2 powr
printing pomes by me wch wer not pd 4 i startid reseeving hate calls
ther wer othr items in th pile up rite wing mps etsetera across th countree
heer mor angels apeerd great lawyr frend sid simons n warren tallman
th censorious n akusing buzzards wer kept at bay by sid n warren 4 ovr
2 yeers warren held a yeer uv huge poetree reedings dfending my self n
othr poets n blewointment n othr small presses sid simons prepared writs
2 serv we survivd bcoz uv thees angels n evreewun being sew supportiv
it was awesum sew much work sew much struggul endurans 2 keep
above watr now publishing in bc is huge totalee multifasitid vigourous
n prinsipuld n tho th forces against art n kultur may try 2 stamp us out we
continu on with sew mane voices sew manee platforms all uv wch is
totalee necessaree 2 a civil n demokratik societee without support uv
th arts a countree will sink in2 brutalitee n brutalitee is always redee 2
lunch on a countree sum uv th rite wing accusrs did jail time veree
surprizing was it stoln emeralds as they wer sew upstanding evn
riteshusthey say uv themselvs th rite wing nevr sleeps



by bill bissett 4 bc bookworld je 14.07