Dan Lukiv

Shadow Boxing in Canada, poetry Dan Lukiv

First Edition: Artslink (Johannesburg, South Africa), 2003.

Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2021.

Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of The Artist's Journal, Western People, spark*, canadian content, Coffee Bean Shop (USA), Poetry of the People (USA), Poetalk (USA), Fullosia Press (USA), Up Dare? (USA), Pink Cadillac (USA), Omnific (USA), Poetic Realm (USA), Canned Phlegm (USA), The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa, Psychopoetica (England), and Cyber Literature (India).

An excerpt

The Poet

The man in the living-room (gyproc
And oak trim)
Can't see his station wagon
Outside the finger-smeared window-
The car like a giant cockroach
Asleep under an orange streetlight;
The man can't see his own reflection
In the picture window of the neighbour's
Dark house across the truck-smashed
Road;
The man can't see these things
Because he's watching a movie about
Van Gogh
And dreaming about what a great poet he'd
Have become
If he'd been more mad.

The author

Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.