Poet and historian Wayde Compton uses turntables to create sound-poetry art, which he calls "re-mix culture." His first book, 49th Parallel Psalm, is dedicated to the memory of Emery Barnes and Stokely Carmichael and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. This was followed by Performance Bond and After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Religion, which received rave reviews. Compton edited the groundbreaking Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature & Orature which The Globe & Mail called a “treasure trove.”