Peter Marcus was born in 1945 in Toronto. He moved to Vancouver in 1966. He found steady work in the health care system as a cleaner and later as a transport attendant and retired in 2002. He was an activist in the Hospital Employees’ Union and a member of the Communist Party of Canada. His first book, A Worker’s Friend, was published in 2019.
Leaning to the Left Pole
Leaning to the Left Pole
Peter Marcus
Leaning to the Left Pole is the follow-up poetry collection from Peter Marcus, the longtime activist and Vancouver poet whose 2019 collection, A Worker’s Friend, was a call to action in poetry form, and playfully expressed the spirit of working-class struggle, leftist politics and social justice.
This new collection maintains a signature accessibility and engagement. The verses deliver sharp political commentary, environmental concerns and social justice themes through playful puns, inventive wordplay, and metaphor. Throughout, one senses the twinkle in the author’s eye.
This new volume further articulates Marcus’s commitment to reflecting — and challenging — the world with profound left-wing conviction.
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