Grant J Venables: 6 books

Bold is a collection of modern poetry that explores the human condition in its more shadowy forms, but it also offers hope and humor, all in good measure. The language is accessible, the forms are digestible, and the messages are comprehensible. It often takes a look from the outside, in.

A poetry collection roughly grouped around the motif of lines, much of this collection was written in 2006 and some was performed live as a part of the Creative Quill Bangkok Tour in 2006-7. Poems range from the opening long piece, that takes an in-depth look at "lines" throughout...

From Bangkok to Barcelona, from London to Laos, from Singapore to Switzerland, this global perspective of ideas inspired by places is as broad in form as it is in content: A grasshopper in the Peloponnese reminds the speaker of a sweltering summer in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada....

Bangkok—Just Under the Skin, looks at the world of the single, expat man in his often-misguided quest to find love in Bangkok, The City of Angels. These 19 short stories provide an insider’s view of the nightlife and extravagance this city has to offer, which often leads to drunken misadventure...

A boy grows to be a man: a majestic lake is his childhood home, a small town his surrogate mother, a lonely girl his only true love. An odyssey, an education, a departure, the East, confusion, meaning...fathers and sons, friendship, fidelity, and the face of a woman he cannot shake, all these force him to try to find the meaning.

Watching my ma crumple into the absurd vortex that is dementia, meant I spent a lot of time sitting by her bed as she-often drug induced--dreamt and jolted in and out of consciousness. As an expat Canadian, I was only able to see my old girl during the December and June breaks from the school where...