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The Colours of the Forest: Poems
Tom Wayman

Harbour, 1999

In this new collection Canadian poet Tom Wayman, long honoured for his incisive observations on life in the workplace and the classroom, takes a more personal turn. Many of these poems celebrate the gains and losses of "middle-aging" while others reflect on the deaths of parents and friends. Readers of "Life with Dick" and "The Big O" will be relieved to find that, through it all, one quality of Wayman's writing that keeps gaining in vigour is ...

The Face of Jack Munro
Tom Wayman

Harbour, 1986

The poems collected in The Face of Jack Munro may be set on the Canadian Prairies, in the Kootenay region of southeastern BC, or in Vancouver during the 1983 Solidarity public sector general strike. But the humour, concern for the individual, and biting social commentary found throughout this collection are exactly what readers of Tom Wayman have learned to expect. "If we gave Wayman a chance to change the world, I think it would be safe in ...

Going for Coffee: Poetry on the Job

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Harbour, 1981

A broad, accurate, representation of work through poetry.
I read "Going for Coffee" as part of an English class at the University of Regina. Although I am not a big fan of poerty, I was intrigued and sympathetic to many of the poems compiled within this anthology. In his introduction, Tom Wayman states that accurate representaions of work are rarely treated in television, movies, and novels. He goes on to show that this may have been a driving ...

Did I Miss Anything?: Selected Poems 1973-1993
Tom Wayman

Harbour, 1993

Tom Wayman has been writing and publishing the poetry of everyday life for over twenty years. This anniversity collection gathers the best of Wayman's published work from eleven previous volumes, along with some provocative new poems, in celebration of his commitment to honest, accessible writing with a sense of humour. Although Wayman laments the disappearance of poetry as a popular art form, and its adoption as "an instument of torture" in ...

In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven
Tom Wayman

Harbour, 1989

Tom Wayman has earned an international reputation as a work poet, anthologist and essayist. This new collection of 64 poems deals with blue-collar working conditions, labour strikes and unemployment, the hierarchy of business and its philosophy of "money above all considerations" in the workplace. Some new travel poems and a few well-chosen comments on the uses and misuses of language are included, as well as a section consisting of 'found ...

Woodstock Rising
Tom Wayman

Dundurn, 2008

It's late 1969 and Communist China has successfully launched its first satellite. Inspired by this feat, a group of college students in Laguna Beach, California, set out to put their own satellite into orbit as an homage to the recent Woodstock Festival. A young Canadian graduate student at the University of California finds himself at the centre of the mayhem when he and his friends break into a mothballed missile silo and commandeer ...

High Speed Through Shoaling Water
Tom Wayman

Harbour, 2007

High Speed Through Shoaling Water incorporates the beauty of the rural landscape with the strangeness of living in today's world. These deceptively simple poems cover rural life, social issues, love's vicissitudes, aging and the writing life. Throughout the book, Wayman interweaves reflections on the landscape of world and work with musings on personal and communal history. High Speed Through Shoaling Water is both celebratory and elegiac, ...

The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems

Harbour, 2001

For as long as we have communicated by words, men and women have turned to poets to help them express the surges of emotion that accompany the feelings we call romantic love. Recognizing that "love's domain is as huge, as vast as Canada itself," acclaimed poet Tom Wayman set out in 1997 to compile an anthology of the nation's best poetry on the subject - the result is The Dominion of Love . The Dominion of Love is a collection of poems by ...

My Fathers Cup
Tom Wayman

Harbour Publishing, 2002

For almost thirty years, poet Tom Wayman has celebrated the language of everyday life and work. Praised for his wit, sensuality and conversational style, Wayman can weave the mundane with the mysterious and shed new light on both. In his latest collection, My Father's Cup , Wayman examines the conflicting emotions that arise when a parent dies, when faith withers, when awareness of one's own mortality grows. But this book is as light as it ...

I'll Be Right Back: New and Selected Poems 1980-1996
Tom Wayman

Ontario Review Press, 1997

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