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Creekstone Press provides a vehicle for creative writers and artists in northern British Columbia. Our books are available at independent book stores throughout Canada.
The weather from the west is a synergistic collaboration that reflects the depth of the physical, spiritual and emotional worlds of two artists and reveals those places where their visions intersect. Over many years, Sheila Peters has been writing poems reflecting the diverse experiences, both here and away, that have made the Bulkley Valley her home as a writer. Recently she shared many of those poems with visual artist Perry Rath. In his forty years as a guide and pilot in the Spatsizi and Tatlatui Wilderness Parks, Bob Henderson honed his skills as a storyteller. Witty, insightful, candid and informative, In The Land of The Red Goat is history, autobiography and a fascinating journey through some of Canada's most stunning geography.
Home when it moves you is a first collection of poems by Gillian Wigmore. Available in a limited edition handmade chapbook format or a facsimile edition inspired by the original, these poems explore the landscape and stories of north central British Columbia in a sizzling new voice that redefines the genre.
Returning the Feathers: Five Gitxsan Stories brings Gitxsan storyteller M. Jane Smith's powerful voice to print for the first time. (While still available in some bookstores and through the author M. Jane Smith, this book is out of print.) With the added dimension of Ken Mowatt's vibrant illustrations, the stories will enchant children and adults alike as they witness the birth of the first Gitxsan and discover the origins of the blue jay's chatter, the mosquito's revenge, and the porcupine's crankiness. Readers will also see how legends are born when Smith turns the visit of an egret to her smokehouse into a luminous journey of transformation. The Rosemary Suite - In March 1994, while helping her friend Leslie hang an art show, Rosemary Hauswirth received a telephone call advising her she had breast cancer. “I could see her face change to ash,” Leslie wrote several years later. “When she hung up, she just stood there, stunned. We held each other for awhile, crying.” It was the start of a new dimension in their friendship and in their individual lives, one in which Leslie would add the art of emotional and physical support to her visual and literary accomplishments, and Rosemary would struggle to rise above fear and the spectre of death. For seven years, when apart or together, Leslie recorded the journey with drawings, poems and journal entries “not to create a book, only to help myself along the way.” Yet Leslie’s art, while a source of strength for her, was also Rosemary’s legacy, a tangible inheritance to accompany the memory of love and kindness bequeathed to her husband, children and friends. “When I read to her some of the poems I’d been writing,” Leslie says, “she made it clear that she would be happy if those words were shared.” The Rosemary Suite is the beautifully-crafted realization of that wish. A Small & Charming World, first published 30 years ago, John Frederic Gibson’s classic work on First Nations communities – A Small & Charming World – is again available in a redesigned edition from Creekstone Press. From Fort Babine and Kitsegukla in BC’s northwest to Nootka and Nuchatlitz on the coast, Gibson tells the stories of a determined and resilient people in daily contact with the forces of assimilation. And in the telling, this seasoned traveller and writer provides us with an elegant piece of literature and a template for cultural harmony. creekstones: words & images, a collection of work by 27 writers and seven photographers from the Skeena River Basin in northwestern British Columbia, was released in July, 2000. From North Beach on Haida Gwaii to a plastic bag barrio in Mexico, from the frantic heart of Vancouver to a peony garden at Meach Lake, the writing in this collection reflects the work of established and emerging artists as they blend language and landscape. Photographs by such artists as the late Myron Kozak, Megan Hobson and Lorne Clarke bring a visual component to the collection, telling stories of their own and complementing the written work. Creekstone Press's second publication, Oar & Sail: An Odyssey of the West Coast, was released in November, 1999, and climbed to the top spot on the BC Bestseller list two months later. The book recounts a voyage made by 66-year-old Dr. Ken Leighton up the west coast of British Columbia from Vancouver to Prince Rupert in an open rowing boat. Illustrated by the author's son, Roderick Leighton, Oar & Sail combines Dr. Leighton's love of language, Gaelic wit and the sea in a story set on one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. The book has been named one of the "three best works published in BC in 1999" by the BC Book Prizes Committee, was shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award, and is a BC 2000 book award selection. Canyon Creek: a script, our first publication, is now in its second printing. It tells the disturbing story of the eviction of a Wet'suwet'en First Nations family from its homesite near Smithers in 1920. Author Sheila Peters, whose work has been published in several Canadian literary magazines, says the book demonstrates how the early surveying and mapping of British Columbia had far-reaching consequences on both native and non-native residents, culminating in the historic Delgamuukw decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the fall of 1997. Canyon Creek: a script was selected by the Association of Book Publishers of BC for inclusion in its First Nations on-line catalogue. |
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