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Drawn from the author’s 60-year journey through the Middle East, Japan, and North America, this collection of poems offers a variety of engaging styles, ranging from sonnets to haiku to free-form experimentation, while considering the implications of technology, science, and nature in the context of the 21st century. Including previously published works as well as unpublished new works, each piece is delightfully engaging, possessing a wry sense of humor while celebrating the pleasures and paradox of modern life.
138 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2009
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About the author
John Oughton
13 books7 followersJohn Oughton was born a block away from the home of John McCrae (author of “In Flanders Fields”). When his father was seconded to the World Health Organization, John spent two years living in Egypt and Iraq.
He completed a BA and MA in English at York U., where he studied with Irving Layton, Eli Mandel, Miriam Waddington and Frank Davey. After a half-year stay in Kyoto, Japan, he worked at Coach House Press and as a journalist and corporate communicator. He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and served as a research assistant to Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. John began teaching English in community colleges, and retired as Professor of Learning and Teaching at Centennial College a few years ago. He put what he learned from teaching and doing faculty development into HIgher Teaching: A Handbook for New Postsecondary Faculty (2021).
He has also published six books of poetry and several chapbooks, most recently the chapbook Double Vision, a collaboration with Atlanta artist/writer Nina West, and The Universe and All That (Ekstasis, 2023), the mystery novel Death by Triangulation, and over 400 articles, interviews, reviews and blogs. He is credited with a script for the original Degrassi Junior High TV show, which was shown worldwide. John is a long-time member of the Long Dash writing workshop. He is also a photographer withsolo shows and several book and magazine covers to his credit. John's book reviews appear in The Seaboard Review. For fun, he plays guitar.
He completed a BA and MA in English at York U., where he studied with Irving Layton, Eli Mandel, Miriam Waddington and Frank Davey. After a half-year stay in Kyoto, Japan, he worked at Coach House Press and as a journalist and corporate communicator. He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and served as a research assistant to Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. John began teaching English in community colleges, and retired as Professor of Learning and Teaching at Centennial College a few years ago. He put what he learned from teaching and doing faculty development into HIgher Teaching: A Handbook for New Postsecondary Faculty (2021).
He has also published six books of poetry and several chapbooks, most recently the chapbook Double Vision, a collaboration with Atlanta artist/writer Nina West, and The Universe and All That (Ekstasis, 2023), the mystery novel Death by Triangulation, and over 400 articles, interviews, reviews and blogs. He is credited with a script for the original Degrassi Junior High TV show, which was shown worldwide. John is a long-time member of the Long Dash writing workshop. He is also a photographer withsolo shows and several book and magazine covers to his credit. John's book reviews appear in The Seaboard Review. For fun, he plays guitar.
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