Sad Songs from Hush River

By Paul Vreeland

Provocative, occasionally humourous, sometimes dark, Sad Songs from Hush River and other poems with a capital "B" is a collection of Paul Vreeland's best lyric and prose poetry, many of which have appeared before in Canadian literary journals. Poet's Prayer: Let each stroke of my pen/ be a statement that I am alive/ and that I have found/ an instance of beauty this day.// If not, // let it be that I have created one/ through which you, dear reader/ recognizes his soul/ and hears his heart respond,/ “I too am alive.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Vreeland
• Release date: Aug 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311615015

Paul Vreeland

Paul Vreeland's work has appeared in Grain Magazine, CV2, The Toronto Quarterly, and All Rights Reserved. Over the years he has been a recipient of several Island Literary Awards, and he has contributed poetry, prose, and photography to the last three anthologies published by TWiG (The Writers in Group). The Caribbean Writer published his short story, "Smoked Herring and the Talking Dog" in English and French. Two of his chapbooks, Hydrostone Quartet (2005), and Mother-in-Law Suite (2011) have been published and are available for Kindle ereaders through Amazon.com. Torn between interests in writing and photography (twice a "Best-in-Show" winner in the PEI Annual Photo Club Show, he maintains a blog at artsconflicted.wordpress.com.

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Sad Songs from Hush River

Paul Vreeland

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PUBLISHED IN CANADA

First International eBook Printing: December 2014

'Listening to Thirst' was originally published in CV2 (Contemporary Verse -- The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing) Vol. 33. No. 2 -- Fall, 2010.

'Photo-Story' and 'Pilgrimage' first appeared in A Gathering of TWiGs 2013.

'Night Sounds' was published in All-Rights Reserved, Halifax, Fall, 2010.

'Trimerics from a Songwriter's Notebook' ('Not on your life', 'Slow Advents', and 'Stormy Monday') were among the 2013 Island Literary Awards, Milton Acorn Award for poetry,

'The Fall' was published online in Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, Issue 4, October 2009 --  http://numinousmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/paul-vreeland/

'Innocence' was published in CV2 (Contemporary Verse) Fall, 2006.

Dedication

To the biological and metaphysical members of my family with a special shout-out to the members of TWiG (The Writers in Group)

Table of Contents

Sad Songs from Hush River

by Paul Vreeland

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Night Sounds

Stormy Monday

Slow Advents

Not on Your Life

Cretin

She Waits by the Door

On a Night Like That

On the Morn of