The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China to Canada


Book Description

The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China To Canada is an imaginative work of poetry inspired by the plans for a real train line and by an old book of poetry by Richard Brautigan.




Toronto To Beijing By Way Of The North Pole


Book Description

Toronto To Beijing By Way Of The North Pole is a poetry sequence like a long poem written aboard an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing by way of the North Pole and inspired by that journey halfway around the world in the time of global warming.




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.




Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again


Book Description

Gravenhurst And Bethune And China: A Long Poem Chronicling A Road Trip From Toronto To Muskoka And Back Again is a book with a purpose: the author makes the case for changing the name of the town of Gravenhurst to Bethune while describing iconic Canadian travels in the summertime.




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.




Harbin, I Love You: The Russian Dream (A Cure For Cancer)


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Two doctors, a Chinese woman and a man from Canada who has changed his name to Bethune, travel to Harbin for the winter carnival during Spring Festival, he stays at a hostel in an old synagogue, dreams about his previous life as a zek going from the Gulag to the Holocaust to Hiroshima, comes back with a cure for cancer.




Love and Peace, Health and Wealth, With Grace and Ease and Perfect Timing: New Age Prayers And Poems


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Love and Peace, Health and Wealth, With Grace and Ease and Perfect Timing: New Age Prayers And Poems, by Martin Avery, DISH, is all about praying, manifesting, opening a coning, working on enlightenment, staying in heaven while surrounded by devas but still working on enlightenment, and waking up before you die.




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.




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.




The Mermaid And The Monk: Zen Poems


Book Description

The Mermaid And The Monk: Zen Poems, by Martin Avery, part of The Great Wall Of China Books Series, is a collection of poems about mermaids and monks and a love affair between a mermaid and a monk that would make a great movie as a sequel to The Mermaid.