“The future of publishing in Canada has arrived,
born into the world by publishing houses with names like
Get to the Point...” --Canadian Bookseller

POETRY:
Family Swan and other songs
by Jean Smith
isbn 0-9697112-5-5
$10
Smith ascends to a new level of willingness to reveal accounts of family tension giving readers a new vantage point to view their own history from. Specific and personal, the adult does the remembering. Family Swan is powerful – anger, pain and funny recollections are allowed to surface. Most of these pieces are on “The Family Swan” the new Mecca Normal CD, out August 20, 2002 on Kill Rock Stars. Jean hand printed her lino-cut cover at Community Print in Olympia, Washington with the asisstance of Nikki McClure.

NOVEL:
I Can Hear Me Fine
by Jean Smith (1993)
isbn 0-9697112-0-4
$10
The first of Smith’s two published books of innovative fiction. This is the first book Get To The Point published; a poetic novel of sublime beauty from the singer from Mecca Normal.
“A literary jigsaw puzzle, one that might have been designed by David Lynch and Sylvia Plath.”—BC BOOKWORLD
“Mecca Normal band member Smith has proven to be as good a writer as she is a musician, one of several non-conflicting juxtapositions in her life and work.” (named one of Vancouver`s top 50 writers `99)—VANCOUVER MAGAZINE

POETRY:
Black Milk
by Catherine Owen
“One of the top 5 poetry chapbooks in Canada.”—Literary Network (Toronto)
$14 SOLD OUT
A young mother’s x-ray vision of her new reality. Owen was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. The book cover, silkscreen on black vinyl, is handmade by Jean Smith.

POETRY:
Out of the Missed
by David Pritchett
isbn 0-9697112-3-9
$10
Pritchett, a longshoreman from Vancouver, swings a crane-load of ideas on love, capitalism and global peril. Along with Norman Nawrocki and Mecca Normal, he is an original member of the Black Wedge Poetry Tour (1986).

POETRY:
Keys To Kingdoms
by Bud Osborn
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award
isbn 0-9697112-1-2
$10
Poems by a community activist from Canada’s poorest neighbourhood.

ART:
Afternoon Descends To Night
by David Lester
$10 SOLD OUT
“A collection of funny, surreal illustrations. Lester’s insights make him a kind of alterna-editorialist.” —MAGNET MAGAZINE

ART:
I talk so fast that my words lose context and meaning
by David Lester
$10 SOLD OUT
ISBN 0-9697112-4-7
In conjunction with Mecca Normal performances, a selection of drawings from “I talk so fast…” will be shown in art gallery locations throughout 2002.

POLITICS:
The Gruesome
Acts of Capitalism
by Public Record
$10
David Lester’s chapbook has been on tour in the Book Mobile (2002), and its design is featured in Zines (Booth Clibborn Editions, UK) -- a large format book about fanzines. Gruesome is also available from buyolympia.com


ART & POETRY:
I’ve Fallen In Love With You
by Wendy Atkinson & David Lester
$25 limited edition
A lovers’ scrapbook filled with poetry, photos and paintings.
“It gets no more complicated, and no less lovely than that.”—BROKEN PENCIL

POETRY:
No Masters! No Gods! Dare to dream
by Norman Nawrocki
isbn 0-9697112-2-0
$10
A collection of urban tall tales, ‘news’ poems, dreams, rhymes & rants for 21st century rebels from Canada’s foremost practitioner of subversive ‘creative resistance.’

POETRY:
What the Wind Brings
by Chad Norman
$10 SOLD OUT
published for a Doctors Without Borders benefit
A moving collaboration of poems and drawings between father and daughter in the quest for peace by a winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwan Memorial Poetry Award.

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MUSIC: CD
Janis Zeppelin
by Mecca Normal
out now
Released late 2003, 12 song CD: experimental, improvised, 4 unreleased songs from 1984, 2 cover songs. CD cover with track listing and purchasing info at buyolympia.com.


MUSIC: CD
Trim
by Wendy Atkinson
out now
An all-bass album using electric, acoustic and double bass.
Visit Wendy's webpage for more information about Trim.


MUSIC: CD
Hundred Block Rock
by Bud Osborn
$10
Bud Osborn’s intense poetry reveals the street-level grind of poverty and substance abuse. David Lester on guitar and Wendy Atkinson on bass in an avant-apocalypse, apres-punk landscape.

MUSIC: CD
Give Me A Call
by Duane Crone
$10
Duane Crone was the busker in front of Vancouver's Commercial Drive liquor store for 15 years. He performed his original songs, lifting spirits on the Drive, 6 days a weeks from 10 a.m. till closing. Produced by Jean Smith.
The title track "Give Me A Call" is in the independent film "Adonde Fue Juan Jose?" -- the song plays on the jukebox of a country and western bar. Dobro was added to the mix by Steve Boatright. The soundtrack CD, "Pajaros de Otro Canto" (The Free Bird Agreement), will be out on Chee Wee Records.

MUSIC: CD
Love Starts Shining Through
by Duane Crone
out soon
The lyrics are online.

MUSIC CD in the works:
Why Don't You Understanding Me?
by Jean & Duane
2 acoustic guitars + 8 years = a pile of songs: It's Fiction, Helpless Hands, Billy Bob, Lily-Scented Room, Pizza Pizza Pizza, After the Interview, Wringer Washer, Call It Potential, Einstein's Hair, Wooden Shoes & Turbans, Empty Suitcase, Mediterranean Sandwich, That's "Mister" Potato-House to You Sir, Smiling Birds & Hot Laundry, Magic Flowers, Blue Cherry Fritter, and more!

MUSIC: cassette
The light changed before I could blink
by David Lester
$10
Solo ambient guitar by Mecca Normal's David Lester.
"Beautiful, endless guitar work." —DISCORDER

Visit the official Mecca Normal website.

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