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HomeBLONDIN is a compilation of three books, BLINDNESS-KINDNESS, GOING OUT THERE IS NO OTHER and COMING BACK THERE IS NO OTHER. These are also published individually.  | Blondin and Other PoemsPrint: £9.96
These poems are the bubbles that stream away from the stern of the small boat of life as it crosses the vast ocean of being. Fragile, inconsequential bubbles of livingness. Oxford's colleges and ghosts. The Far East's hunger for life and concrete jungles. Theravada monks still proclaiming in the Buddha's own words, ''All things are suffering, all things are impermanent, all things are not self. Nibbana is the Highest Happiness.'' There is the contrast between the teeming multiplicity of living beings and the utter freedom and stillness of the Unconditioned State that runs like a crack through the Universe. Through this crack beings escape from the burden of becoming. Through it they return again. From one lifetime to the next. From one moment to the next. Read more...
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 | Going Out There Is No Other (Paperback)Print: £6.95
GNOMON The shadow of the gnomon slides at a steady rate. Even if the dial is ancient, the time itself is up to date. Though the train sleeps in the station, the sun just will not wait. And the ever-moving sun and the clocks that tick and chime are the chains we use to bind our minds and imprison them in Time. Time has no bird, no scythe, no power over man or Fate. Having wanted to be early, we decide that we are late. Read more...
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 | Coming Back There is No Trace (Paperback)Print: £6.99
The great gates hang on broken hinges, the temples blaze, the walls are breached; the palaces have all been looted the end of a dynasty has been reached. Those still living have all been taken, women and children have been sold; the last king hangs from the palace lintel, the images burn to give up their gold. Think, when you dream of country houses, of shattered rafters and sudden fear; and, as you climb the social ladder, remember the last king hanging here. Read more...
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 | Bamboo LeavesPrint: £9.96 PAPERBACK. ISBN 978-1-4092-7625-8 Disabled beggars with plastic begging cups; Ferraris, a snow white Bugatti Veyron and a swimming pool filled with ice for New Year's Day; westernised nose jobs, lady boys and budget sex changes; Ghosts and Spirit Doctors; mediums offering lunch to the spirits that possess them; body snatchers lurking below motorway bridges; menus offering one-day dry pig and son-in-law's testicles. Temples thundering out their message that all this is impermanent, not-self and suffering. Read more...
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 | Oxford PoemsPrint: £8.95
PAPERBACK. ISBN 978-1-4092-6291-6 Oxford: bones and stones, churches and vivisection laboratory. Peaceful gardens, rivers and quadrangles. Relentless efforts to squeeze the money out of its alumni. Drifting ghosts looking for peace. Drifting students looking for a place in a disintegrating world. Beauty inherited from the past. Deliberate ugliness bequeathed by the present. Vice Chancellors once men of God. Currently a man chosen because he is good at making money. A footprint of your world and mine. Read more...
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 | BASIC BUDDHISM FOR A WORLD IN TROUBLEPrint: £4.86
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POCKET BOOK. ISBN978-1-4092-8224-2 War in the Far East and the Middle East. Suicide bombers. Riots on the streets. Gaols and Psychiatric hospitals full. Soaring crime. Racial hatred. Violence in the schools and in the home. Economic meltdown. A world in trouble? Yes. Here is the answer. Simple, straightforward. Open to any man whatever his background. Easy to understand. Read more...
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 | Blindness KindnessPrint: £7.96
POCKET BOOK ISBN978-1-4092-2277-4 THE FALL Each tentacle that used to be anonymous/ is now by mutual consent autonomous./ They may behave at first a bit like fools/ but they'll get better when they know the rules. Read more...
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 | Going Out There is No OtherPrint: £9.96
POCKET BOOK ISBN978-1-4092-2292-7 Time has no bird, no scythe, no power over man or Fate. Having wanted to be early, we decide that we are late. Read more...
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 | Coming Back Thre Is No TracePrint: £8.49
POCKET VERSION ISBN978-1-4092-2276-7 I am a patch of sunshine on the path/ (said the tiger)/ dappled and hard to see./ The forest is quiet and waiting / (said the tiger)/ no need for fear of me. Read more...
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 | Worm's Eye ViewPrint: £11.96
ORIGINAL POCKET VERSION. ISBN978-1-4092-2278-1 Cartoons from Underground. Old friends (and new ones). ''Where the bee stings, there I hurt... How poignant!'' ''Daddy certainly didn't buy me a bow-wow.'' ''Listen kid! When I say schmoo I mean schmuck. Geddit?'' ''Teacher has changed ma sobriquet!'' ''When I said I was going to Heaven, they put me on muesli, Ivy. They mean well. Ivy. They really do.'' Amy's mum says men do it on purpose.'' ''According to our records, I died today..'' ''You play Red Riding Hood. OK. OK. And I'll provde the animal interest. OK.'' ''On Sunday afternoon I play croquet with David Bowie.'' ''You scratch my back and then watch out!'' ''A stitch in time before you leap, eh Jonah?'' ''Headlice have feelings too Sarah!'' ''Jellyfish stop at nothing.'' '' I wish I was a milk bottle. Don't you, Lorraine?'' ''Amy's Mum says it makes your toes curl. Mmm.'' ''Cmon Paddy! Put the boot in!'' ''Amy's Mum say they chain you to the kitchen stink!'' Read more...
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 | Blondin (Hardback)Hardcover Print: £14.95
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 | Going Out There is No Other(Hardback)Hardcover Print: £12.00
Poems about Livingness and Beyond. Read more...
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 | Coming Back There is No Trace (Hardback)Hardcover Print: £12.00
TRAVEL LIGHT The Mouse that scuttles down the bank across the bricks and back again, carries no wallet and all its baggage is in the simplicity of its brain. The Bird that slides across the wind has left its briefcase in a former life, together with its house its mortgage (and its wife). Read more...
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 | Bamboo Leaves (Hardback)Hardcover Print: £11.95
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 | Oxford Poems (Hardback)Hardcover Print: £11.95
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 | Worms Eye View (Hardback)Hardcover Print: £19.60
Cartoons from Underground. Draw a line round anything, put a bubble round what's being said and you've got a Cartoon. Everything is a Cartoon unless you are actually in it. Which you probably are. Read more...
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 | Worm's Eye View (Paperback)Print: £9.95
Cartoons from Underground. What people are saying about you. Read more...
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BLONDIN & OTHER POEMS''...a book full of treasure... I read, I ponder, I am touched by the Poet's wisdom; challenged. I want to read more... and more.'' J.B.Scotland LISTEN''I fumble for words, what to say in your praise! With a crowning poem mankind amaze. There is a lot that Nature speaks but noise of jazz deafened our ears. There is much in Nature to see but we have shut doors, have fears. You read from the book of life so your soul sheds sincere tears.'' C.P.India PEACE''Wonderful... Wonderful indeed... This is what is called poetry!'' S.V.M. U.S.A. OXFORD:MICHAELMAS''So deep... Yet the message is revealing... The powerful words... So strong as it hits every reader... Truly... A masterpiece only great Poets could make... Thanks, dear poet...'' M.S. Philippines DIAMOND MOUNTAIN''This is great poetry. I love how you write.'' D.S. U.S.A. UPEKKHA''I am stunned! Unique specimen! Shall I assume you are writing professionally? This poetry punctures my bones!! All that leads to death is alive! That's what I got!! Alive and very spooky!!'' C.R.T. Cyprus YOU ARE AT PEACE''Excellent write, Brian... gives food to the thoughts... thank you...'' F.D. U.K. LIGHTING CANDLES''It's good to share good things...'' S.A. U.K. UPEKKHA''This really blew me away Brian! Great work!'' P.Mc. U.S.A. LISTEN''A frightening revelation at first... But enticing and daring... That you'll slowly sink in... Very good imagery... Together with glowing words.'' A.I. U.S.A. ''I am stunned! Unique!'' S.T. U.K. DIAMOND MOUNTAIN''I love valley of story... Every hundred years a small bird comes and rubs its beak. When the whole mountain is quite worn away, the first second of Eternity has passed.'' K.T. India GAOLERS KEYS''...[creation/ decomposition] gears up to infinite level / meaningful to ponder on...'' Y.P. Mauritius ''Love this. Wonderful imagery and captivating read.'' L.H. U.K. ASHRAM MELODY''Suitable title... the last lines speak everything... wonderful write.'' I.R. India MIDSUMMER DREAM''This is very charming and delightful Brian. You really put thought into this.'' W.W.A. U.S.A. These comments were posted on www.poemhunter.com by readers of poems which appeared there. |
