John Parker Oughton's Books
May.31.2010
Drawn from the author's 60-year journey through the Middle East, Japan, and North America, this collection of poems offers a variety of engaging styles, ranging from sonnets to haiku to free-form experimentation, while considering the implications of technology, science, and nature in the context of the 21st century. Including previously published works as well as unpublished new...
Mar.26.1997
This collection considers some of our progress and loss over the last millenium. Frequent themes revolve around nature, science, the unexpected, relationships, parenting, confusion, dreams. Styles and forms range from free verse to more formal structures.
Mar.26.1988
A poetic biography of dancer, courtesan and suspected spy Mata Hari, from her point of view. Based on research into available sources. The title refers to the fact that her own memoirs, dictated to a journalist working for the French secret service, are bering kept secret unti 100 years after her execution.
Mar.26.1984
Poetry in various forms and styles about living in Kyoto, Japan; language itself; losing relatives and lovers; simple joys of being alive; various emotional states.
Mar.28.1973
My first book... in between chapbook and regular book in size. Published while I was working at Coach House Press, Canada's longest-running avant-garde press. Note: the obscure title resulted in one library listing it as Talking Tree Trains, another as Taking Three Trains. Now out of print but sometimes available through Abebooks.com and other rare/used books services.
About John
Born in Guelph, Ontario. Educated at York University (BA, MA in English) and later at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where I worked with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, and Robert Duncan. A traveller, I have...
Connections
Causes John Oughton Supports
PEN International, Amnesty International, League of Canadian Poets, POR AMOR, Greenpeace
John’s Favorite Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The Club Dumas.
The Name of the Rose.
Collected Poems of WB Yeats.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Lord of the Rings.
Gravity...