Company Town

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Company Town
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Michael Turner
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:132
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780889782358
ClassificationsDewey:811.54
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press
Imprint Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date 1 July 2002
Publication Country Canada

Description

The poetic record of the last year in the life of a fictional salmon cannery on the northern coast of British Columbia: a remarkable, multi-voiced document that, in text and photographs, tells the poignant tale, through Turner's anthropological insight, of an industry and a culture under siege.

Author Biography

Born in North Vancouver, Canada, 1962. Fiction and poetry: Company Town (1991), Hard Core Logo (1993), Kingsway (1995), American Whiskey Bar (1997), and The Pornographer's Poem (1999). Awards include the 1999 BC Book Prize for Fiction and a 1996 Genie Award for Music/Original Song; as well, a finalist for the 1991 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry. Lives in Vancouver, where, in addition to books and screenplays, he writes art essays and edits ArsenalAdvance, a literary/visual art imprint he founded with Arsenal Pulp Press in 1998.

Reviews

A powerful and important book that challenges many of the assumptions of work writing.