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  • Poetry as Spiritual Practice

    Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions

    by Robert McDowell ...
    "[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." -- from the IntroductionPoetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry creates clarity, deepens and expands spiritual inquiry, and cultivates wisdom, compassion, self-confidence, patience, and love. In author Robert McDowell's ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 2022 Best Short Stories: Riversong Contest

    Riversong Short Story Contest, #1

    by Robert McDermott, Markus McDowell, Nape Motana, Susanne Perry, Jack Towe, Sean Anderson ...
    Series Book 1 - Riversong Short Story Contest
    Enjoy these six winning short stories from the Riversong Short Story Contest, 2022. Unique, quirky, thought-provoking stories in various contemporary genres.The contest and volume was run and edited by Neela Tudurí-Kłepfisch, editor and writer at Sulis International Press. A panel of six publishers, editors, authors, and book reviewers reviewed more than 30 finalists to choose the six winners. ... Read more

    Was $20.99 CAD Now $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Haiku: How To Write It in Minutes

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Haiku: How To Write It in Minutes is the perfect guide for the would-be Haiku writer. This enduring Japanese form comes to life in poet and teacher Robert McDowell's crisp and inspiring poetry manual, one of several in his Forms of Poetry Series. Beginning with the case for writing poetry in traditional form, McDowell wastes no time introducing the reader to the specific requirements of Haiku. He ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amazing Tales Volume 41

    by Robert Emmet McDowell et al. ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Embark on a journey beyond imagination with "Amazing Tales Volume 41"! Enter a realm of storytelling where the universe is your playground and the stars conceal secrets waiting to be unearthed. "Amazing Tales Volume 41", an extraordinary anthology offering unparalleled expedition, is not just an anthology—it's your ticket to the cosmos. Start your expedition on Mercury, where "Red Witch of Mercury ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

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    Citadel of the Green Death (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Robert Emmett McDowell ...
    Narrated by Peter Krausmann, Scott Turner, Barbara Bocook, Agnes Lepe ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 13 min

    At the coldly gleaming Experimental Station they flung this choice in Outlaw Joel Hakkyt's teeth: "Grinding, endless slavery on Asgard, that Alpha Centauri hell—or a writhing, screaming guinea-pig's death here?" He chose Asgard, naturally. But what was natural—on Asgard? ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Quiet Money

    by Robert McDowell ...
    The poet’s first full-length collection, Quiet Money's New Edition consists almost exclusively of longer narrative poems, including the title poem about a bootlegger/pilot who flew the Atlantic solo before Charles Lindbergh. This piece is often cited as one of the most important poems of the 1980s and the movement to revive storytelling in verse. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diviners

    by Robert McDowell ...
    A book-length poem that brilliantly reinvents narrative poetry, The Diviners is a single poem divided into five chapters, each a different decade. McDowell relates the most crucial developments in each decade spanning from the 1950s through 1990s, of the shared lives of Al, Eleanor, and their son, Tom. The Diviners records in blank verse the family’s beginnings, their growth, their problems, their ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emily & Virginia

    by Robert McDowell ...
    This is a coming-of-age novel in which Emily Dickinson & Virginia Woolf return to this world and join forces to protect & assist a young woman artist, Lily, as she grows into her full power in love & work. Artfully written to appeal to adults and younger readers of serious literary fiction, the story takes place almost entirely in Ashland, Oregon and features appearances by several of the leg ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Sweet Wolf

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Robert McDowell's poems over the last 35 years are widely recognized as major achievements in reviving narrative and consistently striving to cre-ate, as poet and critic Chad Abushanab writes in his Introduction, "the song in the story". McDow-ell in poetry also embraces Emily Dickinson's call to engage "Internal difference/Where the mean-ings, are". McDowell's poems appear widely in magazines, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Change Writer's Block to Writer's Stock You Can Take to the Bank: 10 Steps to Curing Writer’s Block Forever

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Mark Twain said, "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one." That's exactly what poet and teacher Robert McDowell does for readers of this terrific Guide to solving the problem of writer's block once and for all. He does this with ten easy steps and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sonnets: How To Write Them in Minutes

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Sonnets are among the most admired and daunting poems in the English language. In his Sonnets: How To Write Them in Minutes, noted poet and teacher Robert McDowell flawlessly explains and demonstrates the characteristics of the English, Italian and Spenserian sonnets and provides excellent examples of each one. His insightful, playful exercises, or writing prompts, encourage reader/writer ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Before I Pray: A Kevin Killgallen Mystery

    by Robert McDowell ...
    Before I Pray, the first book in the Kevin Killgallen Mystery Series, introduces a spiritual gumshoe with street smarts and sass still intact. Born of the traditions of Chandler, Hammett, Spillane, Sayers, Gardner and Leonard, Los Angeles P.I. Kevin Killgallen seeks to find in his torrid life of adventure, danger and self-destructive choices the seeds of a spiritual practice that can bring him ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus