Denis Stokes eBooks

Tunnel JumpingPoems. E-book. Formato PDF Denis Stokes   -  Scarlet Leaf, 2020  - 

A compelling native voice from Ontario, Canada, Denis Stokes remembers the province and the city of Toronto in verses. His verses portray an age, a city, a province, and the people inhabiting them. Though the author's childhood was unlike mine, all the same these poems resonate, drawing me backward into my own. The poems are tightly crafted, but gently, rooted in the area where he grew up, and where I have recently landed as a stranger, not relating to it, not really feeling it at all. And yet, now, perhaps, I do. I have so many favourite poems, especially Kiss `n' Ride, with its beautiful hypnotic rhyme scheme. Other readers will discover favourites of their own. These are poems paying homage. they are heavily rooted in nature, honouring childhood experiences, childhood friends. And family, especially a father and grandfather. I love that grandfather! A reader would give anything to have that grandfather. I know I would, despite already having a beloved one of my own. This is not a book to be scanned quickly. Slow down. Savour it. Enjoy the ride. -Carol Malyon 'a voice with many compass points…' Susan Ioannou

The Blackstock ChildrenPoems. E-book. Formato PDF Denis Stokes   -  Scarlet Leaf, 2021  - 

Another poem collection from Denis Stokes, a poet that surprises at every turn.The poems involve an engagement between Canada and Ireland/England/Scotland/Wales. Part One involves family background, first experiences.Part Two is a meditation on child poverty through the fictionalized imagining of the writing of the Christmas Carol. It is a protest poem about the lack of effort directed towards Campaign 2000, addressed to Dickens's son (and us, the inheritors of a social vision...alas).Part Three involves the loss of the poet's brother-in-law and good friend, Henry Crealey.Part Four goes deeper into present relationships and spiritual explorations.Enjoy, reflect, and spread the word.

Tunnel JumpingPoems. E-book. Formato EPUB Denis Stokes   -  Scarlet Leaf, 2020  - 

A compelling native voice from Ontario, Canada, Denis Stokes remembers the province and the city of Toronto in verses. His verses portray an age, a city, a province, and the people inhabiting them. Though the author's childhood was unlike mine, all the same these poems resonate, drawing me backward into my own. The poems are tightly crafted, but gently, rooted in the area where he grew up, and where I have recently landed as a stranger, not relating to it, not really feeling it at all. And yet, now, perhaps, I do. I have so many favourite poems, especially Kiss `n' Ride, with its beautiful hypnotic rhyme scheme. Other readers will discover favourites of their own. These are poems paying homage. they are heavily rooted in nature, honouring childhood experiences, childhood friends. And family, especially a father and grandfather. I love that grandfather! A reader would give anything to have that grandfather. I know I would, despite already having a beloved one of my own. This is not a book to be scanned quickly. Slow down. Savour it. Enjoy the ride. -Carol Malyon 'a voice with many compass points…' Susan Ioannou