KnICH Press

Peterborough and Northern Bruce Peninsula

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KnICH Press is the print, digital and on-line publishing arm of KnICH Magazine (www.patreon.com/knichmagazine), complementing the magazine itself, which is broadly (very broadly) literary in its interests. KnICH Press publishes booklets, one-page books, and literartefacts, some bundling or extending articles that have appeared in the magazine, some with a life of their own. Publications are distributed to ‘Patron’ subscribers as part of their subscription, and are sold in selected bookstores and galleries local to KnICH, in Peterborough and Grey and Bruce Counties in Ontario. KnICH Press also accepts direct orders which are printed on demand, and distributes the publications of various predecessor small presses.

KnICH Press organizes its publications into six series: Canadiana; Peterboriana; Stephen Leacock; Classics; Storytelling; and Avant-Garde Literartefacts. It was formed initially by merging the catalogues of Conway Books and Voyageur Storytelling Performances in Print, adding to the interests of those small presses with its own emphasis on surrational and surradical social, economic, political and artistic ideas presented in both traditional and avant-garde forms of book.

“KnICH” stands for Knowledge + Imagination + Compassion + Humour, and comes from Stephen Leacock. “Surrational” refers to what is beyond the rational possibilities of the moment and comes from Paul-Émile Borduas. “Surradical” refers to the unending human imperative to extend the reaches of thought, art, and practice.

The classic work on the subject, first published in 1919, referred to by all subsequent writers. The first general survey of the typology and construction methods of aboriginal canoes across Canada. Based on first-hand observation by F.W. Waugh, an early Canadian anthropologist and ethnographer.

Stephen Leacock is largely famed for his humour, and this work certainly has it. He tells a good story, pokes gentle fun at newspapers, particularly at the flexibility of their ethics as they concern advertising, and has immense fun with his own brand of mediæval-speak. We would do him less than justice, however, if we did not consider the possibility of a deeper message lurking therein. We have considered it. There isn't one.

A literary tool for reimagination of Canada using Fourfold Vision. A visual expression of the sound of Canada singing her story and true spirit, like a musical score, carrying the sound of a disparate people striving interdependently for better lives and higher purposes in a vast northern land.