Good News From China: Found Poetry


Book Description

So much of the news about China, reported in the West, is biased, and the good news is rarely shared, but this book of found poetry celebrates some of the great things happening in the big country to the East.




Winter, Again: The World's Longest Hockey Poem


Book Description

Winter, Again: The WorldÕs Longest Hockey Poem is Book Two Of The Longest Poem In Canada, by Martin Avery. Winter, Again alludes to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, And Spring, Again. It's an epic poem about waking up, working on enlightenment, while checking out hockey online. It incorporates the greatest in hockey history and a poet's connection to the game after years of Zen training.




Big Monk Mountain Poems


Book Description

The bald main ridge looks like the head of a monk. It is over 650 metres high. It is shaped like the Chinese symbol for mountain. It is the home of the Whistling Water Taoist Temple, Sunshine Facing Temple. Stone Drum Temple, Guanine Pavilion, and others and from the summit you can see the sun rise out of Huanghai Sea and the sun set in the Bahai Sea. You can also see the ancient city of Jinzhou and the dynamic new city of Dalian. They say it is named Dahei Mountain because of its light dark mountain stone.




Hockey Knights In Canada And China


Book Description

A hockey memoir in poetry from the Cold War to the present in Canada, the USA, the USSR, and China, from Gravenhurst, Muskoka, to Dalian, featuring the big themes -- love and death.




The Gretzky, Orr, Bailey, Crozier, Avery Hockey Poetry Omnibus


Book Description

The Gretzky, Orr, Bailey, Crosby, Avery Hockey Poetry Omnibus, by Martin Avery, is a hat-trick of poetry books with 1. The Hockey Jersey, 2, Gretzky Versus Orr, and 3. Ace Bailey Versus Roger Crozier, like three periods in a wild hockey game.




Ace Bailey Versus Roger Crozier: Epic Poetry


Book Description

Ace Bailey Versus Roger Crozier: Epic Poetry is a book about two great Canadian hockey legends from Bracebridge, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. This is a book that boys will enjoy! It looks at the legends and then the author imagines an epic battle between the two superstars. Avery also connects his own story to the legends as he comes from the same place as the two stars and they were big influences in his life.




Crazy For Stratford: A Very Long Poem


Book Description

Crazy For Stratford: A Very Long Poem is a poetic chronicle of a road trip to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2014 to see Crazy For You and other plays in Stratford, Canada.




My Chinese Enchantment


Book Description

When a Canadian poet moves to China, he is moved to write a lot of poetry about China. This book illustrates a stage in culture shock known as enchantment, which usually lasts about two months but continues for this writer.




You Are Connor McDavid


Book Description

You Are Connor McDavid is a short novel dedicated to hockey's great new talent. The story is told in second person so you can identify with the young phenom. You are a generational talent, the leading scorer in the OHL, soon to be the number one draft pick in the NHL, winning gold for Canada at the World Juniors.




The Moon Represents My Heart


Book Description

The Moon Represents My Heart, by Martin Avery, is a sci fi novel with a romance about a Canadian writer who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature and gets invited to be the first Writer In Residence on The Moon in China's Moon colony.