Cameron Gordon: 8 books

This is a collection of haiku written by Cameron Gordon in the classic English language form of 5-7-5 (three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively). These 48 haiku are organised under broad themes of: Seasons, Waiting Rooms, Sexuality and Relationships, the Workings of the Mind, Perceptions...

This little book is a short meander through Zen thought and practice intertwined with a discussion of the novella by James Hilton about an eccentric Oxford don titled "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," interwoven with a discussion of James Hilton's short but remarkable life and the durability of the "Chips"...

It was a short visit out to the wilderness, just a week. But it is amazing what desert trails and skies can do to break up accumulated habits and world-views that seem real but are in fact nothing more than confining ideas. He had taken this trip to get a measure of freedom and uplift and he got it,...

This is a one act play about the great film director Orson Welles. It depicts an imagined visit by Welles and members of his Mercury Theater Company to perform a radio play in Canberra, Australia in 1940 for the purpose of raising morale for the British war effort in World War 2, a war the US had...

This is a collection of poems written over the course of two decades, with a few new ones written especially for this collection. Their theme is the ruminations and wanderings of the mind, sometimes beautiful, sometimes crazy, often mysterious. Those mental emanations can yield openings, more often...

So what do you do with all that old cardboard left over from boxes of cereal, crackers, chocolates, paper, shoes? I used to throw it out or recycle it but then I got an idea: why not paint on it?  I was already painting as a hobby - mostly abstract and nonrepresentational watercolours. These were...

This book is written as a series of daily reflections for the season in the Christian calendar that is referred to as Lent. Lent is a time that commemorates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist; the subsequent retreat of Jesus to the desert to face his three temptations by the devil; and then...

FROM THE PLAY: Robert McNamara: (Visibly stunned, his mouth slightly gaping.) Speer? Albert Speer? The Nazi? Albert Speer: (A bit discomfited.) A Nazi? I am a member of the National Socialist Party, yes. As an official of government and in my capacity I am bound to be. But a 'Nazi',...