They've done it again. Every once in a while The Canada Council, short arm of the Conservative Government, sees fit to pulp a literary press. It's the shooting gallery of Upper Canada, totally painless because the disappeared is usually a publisher that serves the hinterland, like Caitlin in Northern BC or Ekstasis Editions in Victoria, and doesn't really reverberate on Bay Street.
Times are tough.
By all means, lubricate the auto workers and strangle the poets.
Ekstasis Editions has been bringing new and established writing to Canadian and international audiences for thirty years. It publishes poetry, fiction and children's books, the Pacific Review of Books, a newspaper review, and organises the Pacific Festival of the Book, now in its third year.
