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    A Few Lines on...
    A Few Lines on...
    A Few Lines on...
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    A Few Lines on...

    By Grant J Venables

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    A poetry collection roughly grouped around the motif of lines, much of this collection was written in 2006 and some was performed live as a part of the Creative Quill Bangkok Tour in 2006-7.

    Poems range from the opening long piece, that takes an in-depth look at "lines" throughout time, to poems drenched in love, both good love and bad. Existentialist themes are featured in some works, and some poems reveal aspects of the natural world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrant J Venables
    Release dateJun 11, 2012
    ISBN9781476071381
    A Few Lines on...
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    Grant J Venables

    I am a Canadian who lives and writes in Southeast Asia. Presently I work in Kuala Lumpur, teaching English Literature. I was born and raised in and around Shuswap Lake in south-central British Columbia, but I have also lived in northern Alberta. I went to school at Grande Prairie Regional College, then I moved to Edmonton Alberta, and attended the University of Alberta. From there I moved to Bangkok, Thailand and furthered my studies with Michigan State University. I am married to a wonderful woman, Kaeo (who is on the cover of Bangkok—Just Under the Skin). I have three sons, Kritsana, Heathcliff-Manx, and Keats J. We keep a small farm in Thailand where we raise organic fruit and produce, and ducks...a great number of ducks.When not reading, writing, or teaching, I spend time with my family, my friends, my ducks, and my trees. Trees provide a certain sanity and calm in a world so often too concerned with the insane rush to destroy itself.

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      A Few Lines on... - Grant J Venables

      A Few Lines on...

      Grant J. Venables

      Published by

      Grant J. Venables

      at Smashwords

      ISBN 9781476071381

      Copyright 2012 Grant J. Venables

      Also available at and Smashwords by Venables:

      BOLD

      Bangkok--Just Under the Skin

      A Sense of Place (through another site that sounds like BAmazon)

      Coming soon, by Venables:

      the difference? (a new novel)

      Close Her Eyes: A Bangkok Affair (a post-modern novel)

      the meaning (the grand opus)

      Typeface: Times New Roman

      Thank you for downloading this e-book. This e-book remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copies at Smashwords where they can also discover other works by Grant J. Venables. Thank you for your support. My email address is included at the end of this collection. Please write me if you wish to use any contents of this book for other purposes.

      A Few Lines of Dedication for These Poems:

      Once again, to my dear and fractured Kaeo

      &

      To the music of my youth:

      April Wine

      Bruce Cockburn

      BTO

      Red Rider

      RUSH

      AC/DC

      Led Zeppelin

      The Sweet

      The Who

      Heart’s Dreamboat Annie

      Early Aerosmith

      The Cars

      Table of Contents

      A few lines on...

      A few lines on good love...

      A few lines on bad love...

      A few lines on music...

      A few lines on modernity...

      A few lines on loneliness...

      A few lines on grey...

      A few lines on existence...

      A few lines on nature...

      A few lines on transportation...

      A few lines on words...

      A few lines

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