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Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place
In the anthology Writing the West Coast: In Love with Place (Ronsdale $24.95), educator Briony Penn notes her students have "a better understanding of sex toys in New York City than liverworts in Clayoquot Sound."; Kevin Drews recalls surviving cancer to make a triumphant return to surf at Chesterman Beach.
Searching for a western screech owl, Carolyn Redl recalls how a Good Samaritan helped her revive a dead battery near the Kennedy Lake Bridge.
With its collective, eco-consciousness coupled with contributions from First Nations writers, Writing the West Coast is a coherent anthology that reverberates with a sense of history and pride. It amounts to a regrouping of the spirits that enabled the inhabitants of Clayoquot Sound to join with thousands of protestors in 1993 to stall logging operations during the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history.
Edited by Christine Lowther of Tofino and Anita Sinner of Sooke, Writing the West Coast could have been called Writing Clayoquot. More than half of the memoirs and essays emanate from the Long Beach area; most of the rest are from Vancouver Island. Off-Islanders include Susan Musgrave, writing about Haida Gwaii, and Alexandra Morton, writing about Orcas in the Broughton Archipelago.
978-1-55380-055-2
[BCBW 2008] "Anthology"
Searching for a western screech owl, Carolyn Redl recalls how a Good Samaritan helped her revive a dead battery near the Kennedy Lake Bridge.
With its collective, eco-consciousness coupled with contributions from First Nations writers, Writing the West Coast is a coherent anthology that reverberates with a sense of history and pride. It amounts to a regrouping of the spirits that enabled the inhabitants of Clayoquot Sound to join with thousands of protestors in 1993 to stall logging operations during the largest civil disobedience action in Canadian history.
Edited by Christine Lowther of Tofino and Anita Sinner of Sooke, Writing the West Coast could have been called Writing Clayoquot. More than half of the memoirs and essays emanate from the Long Beach area; most of the rest are from Vancouver Island. Off-Islanders include Susan Musgrave, writing about Haida Gwaii, and Alexandra Morton, writing about Orcas in the Broughton Archipelago.
978-1-55380-055-2
[BCBW 2008] "Anthology"
Submitted on September 5, 2008 in By David.
