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Están En Su Casa, re-named Not Under Arktos, the Bear ""I want [Lukiv] to know how much I enjoyed reading [his] poems with their arresting vocabulary, Biblical references and range of ideas. [His] puma ""cunning as a presidential runner"" made me smile-a good image-and I especially liked the startling opening lines of 'I Have Never Travelled Beyond, '"" Neil Leadbeater, poet (Scotland). ""I hope [readers] enjoy [these poems]...as much as I did. Let us celebrate... creativity, and remember that to be creative for our students, we need to pamper our own spark. Dan [a creative writing teacher, himself] has more than just a spark of it!"", Dorian Love, ETONSA (South Africa). * Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Previously published as Están En Su Casa, poetry (ETONSA, South Africa, 2002). Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of canadian content (Canada), A Journal of Contemporary Canadian Poetry and Poetics (Canada), *spark (Canada), Word is Out (Canada), The Cariboo Observer (Canada), Authors (Canada), CHALLENGER international (Canada), The Poet's Corner (USA), Coffee Bean Shop (USA), The Journal (USA), Hidden Oaks Poetry Journal (USA), Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream (USA), Poetic Voices (USA), Deepsouth (New Zealand), Current Accounts (England), Electric Acorn (Ireland), ars poetica (Australia), Redoubt (Australia), and Artslink (South Africa). An excerpt Once a Military Wonderland Jezreel, desolate- Layered in earth and Bone, Hid Naboth's blood, Fed dogs Jezebel's torso, Gave Elijah lungs To condemn, Boasted Ahab's 70 Heads In two piles by the city Gate. Jezreel, unearthed by spade, Of the Iron Age, Dry moat And great walls, Jezreel gone Like Ozymandias, Solomon too. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).

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