CentreSpoke Publishing

CentreSpoke specializes in non-fiction and poetry with a focus on personhood, healing, purpose, sustainability, sense-making, and dreams. We are interested in meaningful and significant subjects, and wish to develop long-lasting relationships with our authors.

Founded in 2017, CentreSpoke is a grassroots, Vancouver Island-based publisher with a business ethic that favours writing that gets to the heart of what matters. We work to give voice to dimensions that are often overlooked by the mainstream.

The aim of CentreSpoke is to publish innovative and challenging work that stirs the human soul, invites personal responsibility, provokes learning and an arc of healing, with the common thread of coherence, awareness and sustainability.

Published Works

At present, Centrespoke has published one work of non-fiction [Soulful Fellowship: Men, Meaning and Purpose (2018: Gareau and Waugh)] and one collection of poetry [A Cadence of Despair: Poems and Reflections of Heartbreak, Loss and Renewal (2020: Woolf)].

A Cadence of Despair

Cadence of Despair: Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Loss and Renewal

We depend on poets to point in the direction of the unsayable. Facing trouble is an exercise in creativity. There are times in life when we are compelled on a journey, where grief pulls us into impossible ordeals and we have to leave our old, insufficient selves behind. Through his poems, Tenneson Woolf invites us into such a passage. He knows that going through impossibly hard things together is what brings us together.

Soulful Fellowship

Men, Meaning and Purpose

An honest intergenerational conversation between authors Roq Gareau and Dave Waugh about their lives, friendship and men's group. This book provides a path for those who are searching for deeper meaning and more purpose in their lives. The authors dive into their life experiences and share their own storylines as they help us reach a better understanding of ourselves.

Most Mornings

Poetry by Tenneson Woolf

These poems sample practices. They sample learnings. They sample insights and discoveries. They sample dilemmas and concerns. They range from simple and clear appreciations to more complex and murky wonderings about how to be in the world of these times.

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