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Dandurand’s work tackles complicated personal and social issues by drawing on his observations of the natural world. His voice is lyrical yet intimate, obscured yet sitting with you at the kitchen table having a cigarette. The East Side of It All is the journey of a broken man gifted with stories and poems who finally accepts his gift and shares with the world his hidden misery and joy: there was this woman that I fell in love with but she will never know who I am and I hide in the back of the room as she goes about her thing and I go about mine, and once I tried to look into her eyes but when she looked back, I knew she was a spirit and I was still a human and she passed right through me and I felt the coldness of her
Notice
The context is Summer 2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, where economic imperatives are making space less and less accessible to lower-income individuals. The rental crisis is intensifying, ravenous real estate development is thriving and there is a province-wide forest fire emergency, which blankets the city in smoke. The protagonist, Dylan Levett, is a recent university graduate being “renovicted” from his rent-controlled apartment, the central point of view of the story. Notice is a Kafkaesque story about a man caught in the gears of a bureaucracy, a spiral-down, bad-to-worse kind of story. Socially relevant, this is a funhouse mirror held up to Vancouver, a working-class story that stands apart with its composite of literary techniques. Overall, Notice focuses on displacement and petty frustration, applying a documentary sensibility to an original and topical scenario.
it was never going to be okay
it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to break down years of silence in simpson’s debut collection of poetry: i am five my sisters are saying boy i do not know what the word means but— i am bruised into knowing it: the blunt b , the hollowness of the o , the blade of y
Fake it so Real
Fake it so Real takes on the fallout from a punk-rock lifestyle—the future of “no future”—and its effect on the subsequent generations of one family. In June of 1983, Gwen, a gnarly Nancy Spungen lookalike, meets Damian, the enigmatic leader of a punk band. Seven years and two unplanned pregnancies later, Damian abandons Gwen, leaving her to raise their two daughters, Sara and Meg, on her own. The fourteen chapters that make up this book usher Gwen and her daughters through five decades, haunted by Damian’s ghost. Fuelled by vodka and scrappy determination, Gwen balances a responsibility to her daughters with her narcissistic, self-destructive tendencies. Sara and Meg scramble through adolescence and enter adulthood walking the line between selfishness and self-sacrifice, attempting to avoid their parents’ mistakes, all the while making a whole new set of mistakes of their own. In the voices of Gwen, Damian, Sara, Meg, Damian’s bandmate and Gwen’s true love, the novel weave a raw and honest tapestry of family life as told from the underbelly, focused on the grey area between right and wrong, the idea that we are all equally culpable and justified in our actions, and the pain and ecstasy that accompany a life lived authentically.
We Got the Beat
LyricPop is a children’s picture book collection by LyricVerse and Akashic Books that launched in June 2020. LyricPop presents your favorite song lyrics by renowned songwriters as illustrated picture books, instilling a love of music and song among young readers. 25,000 copy first printing. “We Got the Beat,” appeared on the Go-Go’s debut album, Beauty and the Beat which went on to sell over two million copies and spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. The album is included in Rolling Stone’ s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. The Go-Gos have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Caffey cowrote "Ordinary Girl,” the theme song to the television series Clueless . Caffey cowrote (with fellow Go-Go's member Jane Wiedlin) the number one US country hit, "But for the Grace of God,” for Keith Urban. ”We Got the Beat” was the second single off [/i]Beauty and the Beat[/i], and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ”We Got the Beat” is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.
Move the Crowd
LyricPop is a children’s picture book collection by LyricVerse and Akashic Books that launched in June 2020. LyricPop presents your favorite song lyrics by renowned songwriters as illustrated picture books, instilling a love of music and song among young readers. 15,000 copy first printing. Released in 1987, ”Move the Crowd,” was one of the singles on Eric B. & Rakim’s debut album, Paid in Full . The album peaked at number fifty-eight on the Billboard 200 chart and went on to sell over a million copies. Rolling Stone included the album on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. "Move the Crowd,” peaked at number three on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and number 25 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales The songwriters, Eric Barrier and William Griffin (aka Eric B. and Rakim), are considered one of the most influential and greatest hip-hop duos of all time. Paid in Full was named the greatest hip-hop album of all time by MTV in 2006, while Griffin was ranked number four on MTV's list of the Greatest MCs of All Time. About.com ranked Griffin number two on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time (1987–2007). The Source ranked Griffin number one on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.
Respect
LyricPop is a children’s picture book collection by LyricVerse and Akashic Books that launched in June 2020. LyricPop presents your favorite song lyrics by renowned songwriters as illustrated picture books, instilling a love of music and song among young readers. 50,000 copy first printing Aretha Franklin’s version of Otis Redding’s “Respect,” spent twelve weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is number five on Rolling Stone’ s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. ”Respect” is included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list. Franklin’s version earned her two GRAMMY Awards. Franklin’s version became an anthem for both the Civil Rights Movement and women’s rights movements Otis Redding is referred to as the King of Soul. Redding is a multi-GRAMMY Award winner and was inducted into both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Redding was included, at number twenty-one, on Rolling Stone ’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and was number eight on the magazine’s list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
St. Pauli
FC St. Pauli is a football club unlike any other. Encompassing music, sport and politics, its fans welcome refugees, fight fascists and take a stand against all forms of discrimination. This book goes behind the skull and crossbones emblem to tell the story of a football club rewriting the rulebook. Since the club's beginnings in Hamburg's red-light district, the chants, banners and atmosphere of the stadium have been dictated by the politics of the streets. Promotions are celebrated and relegations commiserated alongside social struggles, workers' protests and resistance to Nazism. In recent years, people have flocked from all over the world to join the Black Bloc in the stands of the Millerntor Stadium and while in the 1980s the club had a small DIY punk following, now there are almost 30,000 in attendance at games with supporters across the world. In a sporting landscape governed by corporate capitalism, driven by revenue and divorced from community, FC St. Pauli demonstrate that another football is possible.
A Small Crowd of Strangers
How does a librarian from New Jersey end up in a convenience store on Vancouver Island in the middle of the night, playing Bible Scrabble with a Korean physicist and a drunk priest? She gets married to the wrong man for starters—she didn't know he was 'that kind of Catholic'—and ends up in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She gets a job in a New Age bookstore, wanders toward Buddhism without realizing it, and acquires a dog. Things get complicated after that. Pattianne Anthony is less a thinker than a dreamer, and she finds out the hard way that she doesn't want a husband, much less a baby, and that getting out of a marriage is a lot harder than getting into it, especially when the landscape of the west becomes the voice of reason. <i>A Small Crowd of Strangers,</i> Joanna Rose’s second novel, is part love story, part slightly sideways spiritual journey.