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"These poems navigate contrary states: experience and innocence; loss and ecstasy; restraint and lyric outpouring. MacKenzie's ominous "wrong dark ravine/...wrong dark wind" is set against the buoyant romantic: "I shall Errol Flynn my way into your heart." The reader of Bob MacKenzie's poems will discover a striking range of poetic form and human experience. MacKenzie writes in "Beyond Convergence: The Whistle Dying," of "Gods we dream no more." Don't let the air of resignation fool you - there is ample resonant dreaming in MacKenzie's poetry." Jeanette Lynes, Author of Archive of the Undressed Agapé Heaven & Earth celebrates Bob MacKenzie's 50 year career writing and publishing poetry in Canada, featuring 148 selected poems from 1965 to the present. Reviewer John Ambury writes: "Bob MacKenzie is a highly respected poet and lyricist living in Kingston, Ontario. His immense talent, prolific output, and public readings have already earned him recognition well beyond his local area. Now, this excellent volume will firmly establish his ranking among the most outstanding contemporary poets in Canada. "MacKenzie has published earlier collections, including collaborations. What makes Agapé Heaven & Earth so different and exceptional is its scope. Not a snapshot of a period in the writer`s development, this sweeping aggregation is a curated album of his whole poetic existence to date: a retrospective (for an artist almost too young to have one). It contains 148 poems, carefully chosen from the many hundreds he has written over 50 years - a full five decades. The album's pages are not in chronological order; they are arranged according to motifs, both spiritual and worldly. He observes that during the selection process: "I discovered themes and resonances that I had never noticed before." The result is a sumptuously-laid buffet of both simple and layered meanings, presented through a brilliant kaleidoscope of language. "MacKenzie writes from both his heart and his mind, guided by how his inspirations spark, emerge, and take shape. One result is that his poems span the entire range of accessibility, from straightforward expressions to obscure imaginings. With apologies for neither - the former pieces are never trite, the latter ones never pretentious. Proficient with metre and rhyme as well as informal structure, he has an acute ear for what forms best express what ideas. "Bob Mackenzie's poetry is insightful and emotional, intelligent and honest. And eclectic: his subjects are as wide-ranging as the entire experience of being sentient. He finds unique personal inspiration everywhere: in literary and historical allusions, in the wonders of the natural world, in philosophy, and - most of all - in that deep and boundless source of distilled feelings, human relationships."

Steve Lansing, a down and out freelance journalist in Windsor, a Canadian border city across the river from Detroit, Michigan, is gradually but inexorably drawn to a story of international crime and conspiracy with political implications, yet is unable to penetrate the web of deceit protecting whoever is behind it all. Finding himself ever deeper in a world that seems controlled by fantasy, dreams, and visions, it's not that Steve is stubborn, but that it seems he can find no way out. In time, Steve hooks up with the widow of a murdered cabbie and an honest cop on the city force, but can the three of them find their way out of this dark hole into which they've fallen?

"To Whom It May Concern" was first published in 2006 by Amazon.com as one of the series of e-books known as Amazon Shorts. The series went out of print in 2009. Dark Matter Press is proud to present this new print edition of Bob MacKenzie's experimental mystery story for fans and collectors alike. "To Whom It May Concern" is a mystery story that explores spontaneous human combustion, connecting it to magic and the supernatural while suggesting there may be a genetic predisposition to spontaneous human combustion that is passed from generation to generation. Follow the police detectives as they follow the clues to the mysterious death of one young man.

In mid-Eighties Windsor, Vietnamese gangs and Chinese organized crime meet head on in violent turf war as they go after a University of Windsor anthropology professor and $2,000,000 in ancient treasure he stole from China. Meanwhile, a brutal serial rapist and killer terrorizes the city. Three psychologically damaged women - the professor's wife, his 17 year old daughter, and a private detective - are drawn into this world of brutal psychological terror, raw physical and emotional violence, and international crime and intrigue. Can they survive?In the tradition of Graham Greene and Elmore Leonard. Working on several levels, this psychological crime thriller is also the story of how these three women cope and ultimately survive their journey into hell.Payge Turner was considered a good cop. At least she was until she was asked to leave the Windsor Police Force for an unprovoked angry attack on a suspect. Payge has a darkness in her that made her dangerous to work with and difficult to control.Now Payge is a private detective. It's easier to control her darkness when she works alone.Payge's mind is on the current rash of brutal rape-murders in Windsor when she is hired to investigate the disappearance of 17 year old Susan Markham, the daughter of a respected anthropologist. Susan doesn't fit the rapist's M.O., but Payge begins to suspect something more sinister has happened to this attractive student.Within days, Payge must cope with the turf war between oriental gangs, stolen Chinese treasure, a father who seems unconcerned that his daughter has been kidnapped, and a client who isn't telling her everything. The dark streets of Windsor hide secrets in bars, in families, in the shaded corners where rapists hide.Joining forces with her old police partner, Yvonne Laforet, Payge is soon on the trail of the missing woman. What she doesn't realize is that the most frightening thing she'll discover is hidden deep within herself.