People / Gladys Maria Hindmarch
Writer, educator. Born on New Year's Day 1940 in Ladysmith, BC to Taimi (Aho) and Robert Hindmarch. Gladys Hindmarch studied literature at the University of British Columbia, earning a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts. Hindmarch was a close member of the TISH group from its inception in 1961 until 1965. However, as a prose writer, she did not publish in the experimental poetry magazine. She began writing her Peter stories in 1961, her boat stories in 1967 and her sketches of moments during two pregnancies and one labour in 1970-71. The Peter Stories (based on the Mother Goose rhyme) were published by Coach House Press in 1976 and A Birth Account was published by New Star Books the same year. The Watery Part of the World, 21 stories based on her experience as a messgirl and cook on west coast freighters the year between her BA and MA, was published by Douglas & McIntyre in 1988. Hindmarch's style has been referred to as proprioceptive that is based on Charles Olson's theory that "one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception." Her book, Wanting Everything, edited by Deanna Fong and Karis Shearer and released in April 2020 by Talonbooks, contains her three previous books plus several selections from notebooks, letters to other writers and transcriptions of four interviews.