You can order Jess’ debut book of poetry from Harbour Publishing, through Indigenous bookstores like Massy Books, and Iron Dog Books, or by inquiring with a local, independent bookstore near you. 

Past events

  • Gvúkva’áus Haíɫzaqv

    6:30, September 25, 2023

    Book signing and reading

  • Prince Rupert Museum

    3:00, September 27, 2023

    Book signing, meet and greet

  • Vict. Festival of Authors

    10 & 2, Sunday October 15, 2023

    WMIYEFEN Nature Sanctuary

  • First Peoples House

    2:30, UVIC, Oct 16, 2023

    Reading, Q&A

  • Massy Arts Vancouver

    6:00, October 17, 2023

    Reading, Q&A

  • Volume One Bookstore

    3:00, Duncan, Oct 18, 2023

    Book signing, meet and greet

  • Protection Island Nanaimo

    7:30, October 19, 2023

    Reading, meet and greet

  • Laughing Oyster Courtenay

    4:00, October 20, 2023

    Book signing, meet and greet

  • Upstart & Crow Granville Island

    6:30, November 8, 2023

    An evening with Cúagilákv

  • When the mountains of your territory are your ancestors, you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative, powerful collection of poetry: in the language of ceremony as taut as the inner surface of a mussel shell when the meat is stripped away. Her hyperlocality is precise medicine, an expansive, generous meditation on the mutual care of mountains, the forgiving veins of rivers, all the liminal territories and beings soaked in the verdant magic of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

    Eden Robinson

  • I return to read and then stop to wonder, return to read and still wonder: How is this so true? Let these words love you. They’ll sing.

    Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas