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Counting Out the Millennium by John Parker Oughton

This collection considers some of our progress and loss over the last millenium.  Frequent themes revolve around nature, science, the...
One of the photos in this collection -- taken at Hornby Island, British Columbia.

Gearing of Love by John Parker Oughton

Poetry in various forms and styles about living in Kyoto, Japan; language itself; losing relatives and lovers; simple joys of...
To Get Here

To Get Here by Wendy Mnookin

In these poems I try to understand the transformation of our family under the pressure of a son's drug addiction.
What He Took

What He Took by Wendy Mnookin

Poems that revisit the death of my father in a car accident when I was two. I move from the...
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Mata Hari's Lost Words by John Parker Oughton

A poetic biography of dancer, courtesan and suspected spy Mata Hari, from her point of view.  Based on research into...
In Concern:  for Angels

In Concern: for Angels... by Bill Vartnaw

Poems influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, Jane Roberts' books with Seth and the first 80 years of the...
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Suburbs of my Childhood by Bill Vartnaw

a book of poems using whatever means necessary