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Poetry Canadian

Porcupines, Politicians and Plato

by (author) Dan Kishkan

illustrated by Judy Lister

Publisher
Caitlin Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1994
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920576489
    Publish Date
    Jan 1994
    List Price
    $12.95

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Description

These wildly funny articles, observations of life in the tiny village of Nazko in the Cariboo-Chilcotin, were first published in the Quesnel Cariboo Observer. Just about everyone in the Cariboo started out as babies when they were quite young, which gives Kishkan a lot of material right there. The other subjects of these real-life stories range from thieving packrats, to provincial bureaucrats, to American hunters in fluorescent orange, to fishing yarns, with a bit of homespun philosophy thrown in.

About the authors

Dan Kishkan is a popular columnist with the Cariboo Observer. He lives with his wife Linda and their first five children in Nazko, a small community 75 miles west of Quesnel and 75 miles south of Prince George, on the northern fringe of the historic BC Cariboo. His first book is Porcupines, Politicians and Plato.

Dan Kishkan's profile page

Through a fortunate accident of birth, Judy Lister is related to the wife of the author. (They are sisters.) She lives in the Nazko Valley because once she went to visit Linda and she never escaped. She is married and has some small sons, and she works as the rural school bus driver - a job which, in the Nazko country, has its ups and downs. Whenever there is some time left over, she squeezes in some art work.

Judy Lister's profile page

Editorial Reviews

Dan Kishkan has been one of those rare writers who has been able to paint for me, in words, what it is that makes being a “rural” Canadian so special. He is Arthur Black, Paul St. Pierre, Leacock, The Far Side and Alfred E. Newman locked up in the barrel shaped body of a man who can’t burp. And he’s all ours.

--The Cariboo Observer