Poems from the Previous Century

First Edition: LukivPress Online (Quesnel, BC), 2010. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Introduction About four decades ago, the poems in this little collection appeared in The Poet's Corner, a column that ran for many years in The Cariboo Observer (Quesnel, BC).. During the summer of 2010, I "found" them after The Observer had placed its past issues into online-pdf files. With particular fondness, I remember "The Shepherd," which also appeared in a 1980 issue of Waves, a Canadian literary journal that, like many, has retired into archives only. At a time in my life when I wondered if I were fooling myself into thinking I could actually write decent poetry, "The Shepherd" ran alongside a poem by internationally celebrated Irving Layton, recipient of Canada's Governor General's Award for Poetry. I figured if my work could land a spot next to his, then I wasn't about to give up. I'm glad I didn't. The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).