Poetry. Photographs by Robert Minden. Ronsdale Press offers a new edition of STEVESTON, this much loved work by two of Canada's finest poets and photographers. For this edition, Marlatt has written a new poem, never before published, to offer a postscript from 2001 on the original 1974 undertaking. At the publisher's request, Minden has returned to his photographic archive bringing 9 additional images of Steveston and New Denver to light. In addition, Marlatt and Minden have rethought their decision to interleave poems and photos, and have, instead, created two separate but connected stories—poetry and pictures that evoke their own rhythms and then speak to each other of their connections. For the first time, Minden talks about their joint project of recreating STEVESTON, in verse and photos, as two overlapping but distinct "folios." For all the newness of this edition, STEVESTON retains its old magic: with Marlatt's long lines recreating the ebb and flow of the Fraser River, the sense of the two artists outside the mainly Japanese-Canadian community, but also through their art evoking the multiple layers of community, the traces and erasures of presence. As Marlatt recalls, "There was something in Steveston which drew us, over and over again, and which our work attempted to enunciate—something under the backwater quiet, the river hum of comings and goings, the traffic of work, that was 'shouting' at us to tell it."

Author City: Vancouver, BC CAN

Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle, CM (born July 11, 1942), is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. At a young age her family moved to Malaysia and at age nine they moved back to British Columbia, where she attended the University of British Columbia. There she developed her poetry style and her strong feminist views. In 1968, she received an MA in comparative literature from Indiana University. Her poetry, while considered extremely dense and difficult, is also much acclaimed. In 2006, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.