A poet, a former logger and fisherman, and a lifelong trade unionist, M.C. Warrior was a founding member of VIWU, (the Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union) along with Tom Wayman, Kate Braid, Kirsten Emmott, Phil Hall and others. He is also author of Building the Power: A History of the Labourers’ Union in British Columbia. This is his long awaited first book of poetry.