George Payerle

Works by George Payerle:

• Unknown Soldier
• Alterations
• The Last Trip to Oregon: Poems in Wake of Red's Death
• The Last Trip to Oregon: Poems in Wake of Red's Death
• Wolfbane Fane
• The Afterpeople: A Patheticon
• The Weather and That
• Two from Babylon

From ABC Bookworld, "George Payerle was a founding member of the Writers Union of Canada. . .For decades within the Writers Union he was known as an always bearded, outspoken, garrulous and generous presence who talked loudly and drank heavily.

Born of Hungarian parents. . .1945 in Vancouver, George Payerle attended UBC for seven years and co-edited Student Protest (Methuen, 1968) with two others. In the year he received his M.A. in Creative Writing, Payerle published a short experimental novel, The Afterpeople (Anansi, 1970), subtitled, "a patheticon." This montage of events arising from a bank robbery at the Granville and Pender branch of the Bank of Montreal had limited readership but it enabled him to become a noteworthy presence with the fledgling Writers Union of Canada where he became with acquainted with many of the heavy hitters in Ontario who were at the forefront of emerging Canadian literature. Always a West Coaster, Payerle worked for Urban Reader (1973-1974) and translated some Hungarian writers. He published a chapbook called Wolfbane Fane in 1977. "If I can be said to write "about' anything," Payerle wrote at the time, "I write about perception; or, I write perception. Good writing is like wine or blood, depending on the mood you're in." His daughter Bronwen was born in Vancouver in 1979." He appeared at the Sunshine Coast Festival of Written Arts, Sechelt in 1987,