The Neighbour, poetry

By Dan Lukiv

Granville's Caf , re-named Coffee International, and then The Neighbour

"Well done," jfc, Fullosia Press (USA).

"Dan Lukiv's Granville's Caf ]...catches some charming scenes from daily life. Dan brings with him a world of experience from dockside to the more sedate academies of higher learning," Fullosia Press (USA).

" Coffee International is] very good," Robert Newman, New Cilans Coffee Bar (USA).

"Granville's Caf " "That nice Lukiv poem," Strange Vintage Fictions (USA).

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First Edition: Fullosia Press (USA), 2002.

Second Edition (entitled Coffee International): New Cilans Coffee Bar (USA), 2005.

Revised Edition (entitled The Neighbour): LukivPress (Canada), 2022.

An excerpt

The Neighbour

He prunes and weeds and-

He's gift-wrapped
With "please" and "thank you"
And silk ties,

His wife counts fat-grams
On a rosary,
And his two children
Ride the honor roll.

But he does not like himself-
That's his secret.

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: 1672569664
• ISBN13: 9781672569668
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"