Poems for Jonathan Swift

By Dan Lukiv

Spuds for Jonathan, re-named Poems for Jonathan Swift

"The 10 poems Spuds for Jonathan), Brobdingnagian Times Press, Ireland, 2001] have found port in the harbours of many journals (Canada, USA and England) and Lukiv has a post in creative writing at...McNaughton Centre and himself edits the literary journal Challenger International....One spelling] might be benign about the poem title GREAN PEACE-a poet is allowed a little whimsicality to brighten the Canadian day, as if Dan's CBC report was not enough:

I HEARD ON CBC

I heard on CBC
That this engineer guy,
Like he invented an alien
Abduction prevention
Security system,
Aye?

You plug it in beside
Your bed,
And it measures these ion things
That aliens make.

The buzzer goes off,
Aye,
And so you wake up and decide
If you want,
You know,
To let the aliens abduct
You.

I heard for 399 bucks
They're selling like hotcakes.

-reviewer: Eric Ratcliffe, New Hope International Review On-line (England).

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Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

Previously published as Spuds for Jonathan (The Brobdingnagian Times Press Cork, Ireland], 2001).

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Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Krax (England), The Cariboo Observer (Canada), McNaughton Yearbook (Canada), Spaced Out (Canada), *spark (Canada), The Speaker (Canada), The Buzz (Canada), Afterthoughts (Canada), Coffee Break (Canada), The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education (Canada), The Journal of Poetry Therapy (USA), The Green Tricycle (USA), Writing (USA), Coffee Bean Shop (USA), Poetic License (USA), Fullosia Press (USA), Timber Creek Review (USA), You Can't Take it With You (USA), Up Dare? (USA), The Sunflower Dream (USA), Creative Juices (USA), MOON Magazine (USA), Meditations (USA), Hear Our Voices (USA), Poetic Realm (USA), Omnific (USA), The Path Not Taken (USA), Artslink (South Africa), and The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa.

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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1689700785
• ISBN13: 9781689700788
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"