William Gough: 12 books

A powerful and evocative poem about childhood in Newfoundland.  It is designed for both print and e-book with the spaces on the page working as punctuation.  Another movie for the mind, it takes as much account of layout as it does content.  This is a poem not only for the ear, but also...

Author of "*The Terra Nova Quartet*" William Gough works in many forms - he's a novelist, film-writer and poet. In "*Poet In a Pontiac*," he creates a novella that's also a Word-Movie/Mind-Flix - an inner film that un-spools in the mind. And as it does, we meet the cast of characters; the Poet...

  “This is the place where I remember friends and relatives. It's a book from  my heart - and I'm inspired by the way that Shinto approaches encourage us to recall those who've left but are not forgotten. It's like planting bulbs in a fertile field. This is where I say my goodbyes.”...

Maud's House: Maud Tilley felt as if all her dreams had come true. In the small outport of George’s Cove, she’d met the love of her life. Like her, he didn’t care what people thought. Like her, he was happy to live together without being married. As long as they had each other,that was...

Inside The Painted Poem Cave This is the Second in a series of linked Urban Fables.In this second fable, having lost his green bicycle, and arranged plum blossoms in a vase, he becomes old and meets a woman in the adjoining room. This becomes a story of a little old man in a big room.Toonie Yarns.. ...

Underwater Songs No need to breathe air; releasing his poems from the afterlife; having shared his green bicycle & married, placing a plum blossom in his lapel; now past being old, he lives underground - and his widow carries her tales like a comet. Yet another yarn about a little boy in a big room. This is the fourth in a series of linked Urban Fables."A Gull Pond ''Toonie Yarns'

Vegetable Talk   This is the first in a series of linked Urban Fables. Each story stands on its own and is being released as a single e-book. But they all connect in a much larger meta-narrative. Much like our lives. When we meet the boy, he's imprisoned by curtains, surrounded...

No longer imprisoned by curtains, recently released by vegetables, discovered back on his green bicycle, celebrated by plum blossoms; yet another yarn about the little boy in a big room.   The stories in my linked Urban Fables are part of a work-that's-been-in-progress since 1972. All...

Critical texts and interviews that explore the drawings, animations, and theatrical work of the South African artist William Kentridge. Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his homeland in both personal and political terms. With erudition,...

The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as “globalization” is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural,...

The ‘Key Issues in Higher Education’ series aims to raise both awareness and the standards of debate on the fundamental issues that lie at the very heart of higher education and intends to assist national and international debate. Higher Education and Sustainable Development examines whether...

This book examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act. This comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional...