Church Street Is Burning

By David Halliday

A finalist in the 2003 Eppie Best Poetry Collection, Church Street Is Burning, in illustrations, short stories, and poems, tells the story of the poet as a young man. Lost. Abandoned by the woman he loved. Bewitched by the street he lives on. Forgotten by his God. Searching for some rational order in a world fallen on its side. And leaking.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Halliday
• Release date: Oct 29, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452329970

David Halliday

I have published poems, short stories, plays, art works in reviews and publications across the United States and Canada. I have several published books:murder by Coach House Press. This book is a series of poems and illustrations set up like scenes in a movie, describing the murder, trial, and mob execution of an innocent man. Winner of the 2001 Eppie for poetry.The Black Bird by. The Porcupine’s Quill. This is a book of poems, illustrations and short prose pieces describing the fictional making of the John Huston film, The Maltese Falcon.Making Movies by Press Porcepic. This is a book of long poems, interviews, short fiction pieces about a fictional BBC documentary about a fictional Canadian film maker, Samuel Bremmer and his company of actors and colleagues. It follows his career through the creation of a series of his movies.Church Street is Burning, a book of poems, was a finalist in the 2002 Eppie for poetry.The God of Six Points, published by Double-dragon-ebooks. A man who believes he is a god believes he has murdered one of his subjects.Sleeping Beauty, published by LTD ebooks.com is a murder mystery. A woman lands in a small village where the only escape is to be murdered. Finalist in the 2003 Dream Realm Awards. Winner of the 2004 IP Book Awards.The Hole, published by LTD ebooks is one in a series of cop stories. There are unusual happenings in the quiet suburb of Islington. People have begun to disappear. And they have been disappearing for generations. For the soon to retire Sam Kelly, this is his last case as a detective. All the clues point to a mysterious hole, which appears to have no bottom.In 2007 I was short listed for the C.B.C. Literary Contest in poetry.

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Church Street Is Burning

by David Halliday

Church Street Is Burning

Published by David Halliday at Smashwords

Copyright 2010 David Halliday

A finalist in the 2003 EPPIE Award for poetry.

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Some of these poems have been published in the following magazines.

Earth and You, Hartford Courant, Repository Press, Delirium,

Inscape, Salt, Parachute, Seven Stars, Alchemist, Stroker, Alive,

Split Level, Aura, Poetry Box, Third Eye, Circus Maximus,

Quest, Anthol. Ram, Phoebe, Vega, White Wall Review

The Departed

The last glance. A brief glimpse. A closing door. A razor of light across my eyes. I hid in my chair. All around me, vases and pots filled with anger. Fingers wilting. Paint blistering. Cockroaches singing a Negro spiritual. Why did she leave me? The carpet beaten down. Years of footprints following her out of the room. Soon the rug was back to its original factory condition. I never realized what bad taste we had back then.

New noises in the night. Sounds that had been kept away by the warmth of her body. Windows rattled. The late night Church Street bus. The wet tires of passing cars. The