Bøger af Bruce Meyer

A major collection of "flash fiction" by one of Canada's most accomplished and renowned writers. The collection includes the prestigious Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction 2022 story "How to Draw a Frog" and other award winning gems of the author's work. His flash fiction has been published in many countries, including Ireland, the UK, the US, Hong Kong, India, Nigeria. Bruce Meyer is the author of over sixty books or poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, and literary non-fiction. He is also well-known as the voice behind various CBC radio's literature broadcasts The Great Books, A Novel Idea, Great Poetry, Poetry is Life and Vice Versa. He has taught at various universities, including University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Windsor, Laurentian University, Notre Dame, Skidmore College, University of Southern Mississippi, University of Texas in Austin. His many awards include being named Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie where he now resides with his family. Bruce Meyer's works have received very high international praise from numerous sources.

The banquet that is daily life is celebrated in this accessible compilation of poems that comprises the poet's 12th collection, illustrating the loves, joys, and fears of the human race. The featured pieces explore the various things people consume - whether in the form of food or everyday experience - expressing the universal idea of 'bread' in the form of poetry.

Bruce Meyer's forte is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channelling the music and suffering of the human experience and, beyond that, the spiral of cultivation and destruction that sustains and endangers humankind. His poems are daring and artistically defying, composed with gravitas, powerful mindfulness, and reverence.