On Christmas Eve 2021, our healing arts social enterprise publishing house HARP Publishing The People’s Press reached its 15-publication milestone, when the novel Songlines, the last in John Graham-Pole s YAF trilogy, arrived on the doorstep of HARP Central in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia. That’s 5 publications a year since HARP’s first publication in December […]
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Facing our Climate Crisis Together 11.30.21 My background and beliefs I am a 79-year-old white male with two careers—health and writing/publishing. I am a Quaker driven by the principles of Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, and Equality (SPICE). The climate crisis is our greatest threat to humanity. As an elder I’m inspired to use my resources […]
The climate crisis is the single greatest concern that all of us have to face. Because it can foretell annihilation of our human race. This agonizingly painful process is gathering pace. And the world’s poorest communities—the people of the global majority—are right at the sharp end of the spear. The forces of brute capitalistic greed […]
METAMORPHOSES Plant-Patty and Miss Birch Turn into Each Other Let me sing to you now, about how people turn into other things. Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. 1.1-4, 8 a.d. In the fall of 2020, John Graham-Pole and I embarked on a pandemic reading program. Reading that would keep us attuned to the global climate emergency. […]
Posted by Dorothy Lander M’s Humble Bumble bee companion in Hmmm – M the Humdinger (www.harppublishing.ca/books/hmmm) When I was crafting M’s humming companions for the intergenerational storybook entitled Hmmm – M the Humdinger, I was keen to use goldenrod blossoms (solidago) to represent the pollen on bees’ legs. For my next botanical bee, […]
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254587 From 4,700 years ago comes this sophisticated, slightly abstract marble sculpture of seated man playing harp, & maybe singing. It was originally painted, & is one of the earliest-known depictions of musicians (Cyclades Islands). In The Met Museum, New York City.
The Curious Cat Tea and Books will open this summer on Main Street, Antigonish in partnership with HARP Publishing The People’s Press. We know it is real when there is a feature story in The Casket (May 26, 2021). www.saltwirepressreader.com HARP will have a dedicated display unit for the 13 titles released since December 2018. […]
The Cards Botanical Mi’kma’ki Individual Orders by Number 1 through 12 $4 CDN per card $19 CDN for any 6 of your choice $37 CDN for set of 12 (plus shipping) Contact harppeoplespress@gmail.com for payment options and pick-up/delivery in Antigonish area M the Humdinger 2. M’s Pansy Family 3. M’s Creation Story M’s Swing […]
