BOOKS

No Small Potatoes is about the importance of community and food safety. It's an eclectic look at the effects of factory farming and genetic modification on us and our food. It combines research, interviews, and personal narrative.

After being awarded a Canada Council grant to write a book about the potato, I traveled to Prince Edward Island, Peru and Hungary for research and to interview people. Some of the places I visited were an organic farm, a native-run potato park, the International Potato Centre, and museums. Interviews with farmers, scientists and regular folk, including some from Ireland, are in my book, too, along with a section of colour pictures from my travels.
This anthology was put together by one of my creative writing instructors at York University, Elisabeth Harvor. We ran into each other in Montreal years later, just at the time she was putting this together. It's a racy sort of poem, so you'll have to track a copy down, if you want to read it.

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What People Are Saying

The personal stories are compelling, and I am genuinely envious of Johnston's time spent with the Quechua of South America.
-- Globe and Mail

I am impressed.
-- Ann Diamond

Its contents reach me with such freshness and unencumbered vitality ... The voice is 'just' (as if that's easy) so natural, so fitting to what that voice is on about, so right. It's a real accomplishment.
-- Don Coles

No Small Potatoes was fantastic. It seriously blew my mind to think that something as unassuming as a seed could be used as a means of exploitation ... The intro is breathtaking and I've learned so much! Makes me feel GOOD about buying at the Farmers' Market.
-- Marnie Maguire


[In A Room at the Heart of Things], ... there isn't a clunker in the lot. And ... poets like Julie Bruck, Carmine Starnino and newcomer Elizabeth Johnston [are] made more accessible to readers in this collection.
-- Denise Roig, reviewing the book for The Montreal Gazette