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Workbooks for the Fourth Way
Workbooks for the Fourth Way is the overall title of a series of essays, articles, reviews, and notices concerned with the Fourth Way. Over a period of two years, forty issues appeared every two or so weeks on the Internet … Continue reading
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Wonder Words
Wonder Words is a collection of sentences that give expression to expressions: ideas, ideals, thoughts, notions, feelings, emotions, moods, errors, truths, falsehoods, commonplaces, etc. These take the form of adages and apothegms that intriguingly sidestep “common sense” in an attempt … Continue reading
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Notebook Six: Occasional Writings
Notebook Six: Occasional Writings consists of those 500 prose texts that were not included in The Notebooks of John Robert Colombo, the general title of the uniform set of five volumes issued in the Summer of 2018 that collected Colombo’s blogs, blurbs, … Continue reading
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A World Elsewhere
A World Elsewhere is a compilation of the “poems and effects” composed or constructed during the course of the year 2022. These quasi-literary creations serve as dramatic records of the ideas, emotions, and sensations experienced by the author over the last … Continue reading
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All Over Once Again
All Over Once Again is a collection of 160 “poems and effects” written and devised by John Robert Colombo during the calendar year 2021. The “poems and effects” lead the reader through the labyrinth of that single and sullen year, recording highs and … Continue reading
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Every Other Word
This is not a book of quotations or a volume of aphorisms. Instead, Every Other Word is an original collection of 1,720 remarks and observations about the world and its inhabitants that consider and reconsider the traditional wisdom of the ancients and … Continue reading
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No Longer Now
No Longer Now consists of the “poems and effects” composed during the year 2020 by John Robert Colombo. The present volume ishis sixteenth “poetry annual,” so these volumes act as a good guide to what has changed and what has remained constant … Continue reading
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Remains to Be Seen
Remains to Be Seen with its equivocal title is a collection of the “Poems and Effects of 2019” composed by the Toronto poet and editor John Robert Colombo. There are over one hundred texts here in the sixteenth volume in this series … Continue reading
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More One Word Poems
More One Word Poems is a collection of poems that are so brief they might be called breviloquent. Most of the poems are a single word in length, seldom more than three words in all! Yet each poem is complete in … Continue reading
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I Dream of Pallas Athene
I Dream of Pallas Athene offers the reader thirty-nine original poems, some quite lengthy, that honour the spirit of Pallas Athene as a goddess of the Ancient Greeks and also in her present emanations as the Oracle, the Sibyl, the … Continue reading
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Serious Considerations
John Robert Colombo’s latest publication consists of all the poems and effects that he composed during the year 2018. The contents appear in chronological order, as do the entries in the Canadian author and anthologist’s diary or journal entries for … Continue reading
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Colombo’s Podcast: Episode One
Listen to the latest works of John Robert Colombo as presented by Canada’s “Master Gatherer” himself. Hear lore and literature — aphorisms, poems, jokes, ghost stories, ufo experiences, Canadiana — specially researched by the Toronto-based author and anthologist each … Continue reading
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Colombo’s Podcast: Episode 2
Ten-word stories…
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Colombo’s Podcast: Episode 3
Four poems…
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Colombo’s Podcast: Episode 4
Quotations about Canada…
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Distant Places
Distant Places: Poems and Effects of 2023 consists of the gleanings of one year in the life of the author – that is the thoughts, remarks, observations, impressions, readings, quips, quotations, etc., not to mention the “poems and effects” produced … Continue reading →