Artword Press is a publishing house in Hamilton Ontario. We cast a wide net: fiction, non-fiction, plays, poetry and graphic works.
Books we ourselves want to read. Original ideas, vigorously and eloquently expressed.
Our Past Our Story
Stuff they don’t tell you!
By John Williams
For over 27 years, John Williams has been creating a cartoon history of our times. Distributed by the Union Art Service, his drawings appeared in labour publications across Canada.
Now, for the first time, they have been gathered in one volume. Together, they present an accessible and entertaining album of people fighting for rights, freedom and economic equality.
Can this be School?
Fifty years of democracy at ALPHA
by Deb O’Rourke
ALPHA Alternative School was founded in the idealistic 70s in Toronto, a public school with no homework, no grades and no tests. Decisions were made in open meetings by the teachers, parents and students. After struggling through “chaos”, the school found its way. But then educational trends swung back to just-the-basics and rigid structures.
ALPHA’s struggle to maintain its principles and survive for fifty years (and counting) is the subject of Deb O’Rourke’s passionate and engaging book.
A compelling account of how possible it is for a committed group of parents to help create something better for their children so that they won’t have to endure the same educational misery.
Chris Mercogliano, Co-director of the Albany Free School
Toller and Other Plays
by Sky Gilbert
From the Foreword by Gary Smith:
These three works taken together in this volume offer us vivid insight into Gilbert’s world of people caught in crisis, lives held at the breaking point, hearts pounding, never quite sure if they will break.
The truth is, Sky Gilbert has more theatrical flair in his little finger than anybody else in the Toronto scene.
Toronto Globe and Mail
Gilbert has spoken eloquently about
society’s persecution and misunderstanding
of non-conformity- and that’s a theme that
goes beyond the specifics of homosexuality.
Toronto Star
