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  • Solitude's Solace

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    Questioning life experiences - from British India to independent India; minority discrimination in the new land (USA). Entertains questions, as subtle as human nature to what’s hidden behind ultimate reality; perceived by an amateur...


  • Poems of the Beautiful Caribbean Islands

    the beautiful places, the friendly peoples, the intriguing history
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    Sandy loves the Caribbean Islands! He's always excited to talk and share about these beautiful Islands. Always! About the picturesque, breathtaking places with an intriguing past! About the pleasant peoples with their warmth and welcome! And...


  • Rebel Dove Poems

    Poet passenger pigeons taken over the Way of Horus notify their messages along the pharaonic line.
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    Rebel doves in kite formation num’rous fly. Above Horus Way line, Thot’s envoys darken lunar tides. A flock of passenger pigeons transformed military messages into poems on what they saw between watchtowers on the Way of Horus and Tanis. Over the...


  • Toronto Anthology

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    Toronto is arguably one of the biggest cities in Canada. One can argue that Toronto is one of the biggest cities in the world and is forever growing on an international scale when it comes to recognition and familiarity. Toronto is home to many...


  • Embers

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    I have sat at the feet of teachers, who have sat at the feet of masters, so I have touched enlightenment thrice removed, which has the feeling of a handsome baseball glove in a shop window that I have not the money to buy. I know this feeling...


  • Reflections

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    That broken old buggy down by the well If it could talk it would have a story to tell Of horses and sleighs and bygone days Pull up a stump and hear what it says. Reflections is a collection of rhyming poetry that shares a snapshot of a life that...


  • In Circles

    A memoir in vignettes - Poems written in 40 countries
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    In Circles is the follow-up publication to the author’s widely-acclaimed parody novel, The Last Smoker on Earth and the End of Literature [Friesen Press, Vancouver, 2021]. The poems were composed in 40 countries around the world. The collection...


  • FEAST: The Second Serving

    Revised, Revitalized, and Re-Realized
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    Scripts, quips, quotes, and soul grown feel-osophies make up the full course spread of FEAST: The Second Serving’s succinct and deeply relatable musings. This earnest and intimate collection explores life, love, addiction, and the human condition...


  • Hungarian Poetry (Folk, Classical and Modern) in English

    1000 years
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    An accomplished poet and the author of Canadian Hungarian Literature (1897 - 2017), Frank Veszely brings to the English reader the rich treasure-house of folk, classical, and modern Hungarian poetry (1000 - 2020). The translations read as if they...


  • Sun, Sky, Sea, and Sometimes Mud!

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    For Joan L. Marshall, there are powerful metaphors buried in the word “mud.” Not just the natural material that squelches under a child’s bare feet when playing at the beach, but complex memories of coming of age in her native Barbados. Sun, Sky,...