Stan Rogal: 6 books

Acclaimed poet and author Stan Rogal’s newest collection of short  stories will drag you into a mesmeric, macabre world of fragile  characters dealing with crippling obsession. Befriend a pitiful  prostitute; watch a man’s curiosity choke out his life; and be part of a  visceral...

A dark stretch of mountain highway. A lone hitchhiker. A car stops. When Peter Donaldson hears about the girls who are turning up dead in ditches, hes horrified. Who wouldnt be? When Detectives Johnson and Mallory hear another body has been found, theyre frustrated. They need a break. They dont need...

Drawing from a variety of sources including folksong philosophy linguistics chaos theory theatre and sexuality Stan Rogals poetry is a rollicking and adroit expression of the world in flux. This selection gathers together fifty of Rogals best poems from the last thirty years; it is sure to delight long-time fans and new readers alike.

normalwhats’normal is a collection of stories which explores the notion of normalcy, both in content and form, when it comes to certain human relationships and behaviours in our culture. The stories are of mixed genre (even genre-bending: realism, magic realism, fairytale, dream...) and mixed discourse...

The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry and flavour. The key was to construct these pieces in the author's...

A Rogue's Decameron consists of ten tales based within the spirit of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's The Decameron: extravagance, joy and ribald humour around sex, lust, vice, death and other “hungers” of human beings. Using similar framing technique as these works, the stories...