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    The Narrow Road to the Far West
    The Narrow Road to the Far West
    The Narrow Road to the Far West
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    The Narrow Road to the Far West

    By Alan Hill

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    THE NARROW ROAD TO THE FAR WEST
    First up, it’s a new collection of poems from the city’s poet laureate, Alan Hill.
    The Narrow Road to the Far West: Travelling New Westminster By Postcard, recently released by Silver Bow Publishing, is described by the author as his “very personal tribute to some of the places that have meant most to me in my time living in New Westminster.”

    Each poem is its own literary “postcard” to a uniquely Royal City location – some well-known, like the petting farm at Queen’s Park, the Tin Soldier and River Market, and others of a less-travelled variety, such as the dollar store at Royal City Mall and the Great Clips on McBride Boulevard.
    The poems include both elegant imagery and a sense of the humour and absurdity of day-to-day life.
    Like this moment from Centre Span, Pattullo Bridge ...
    “It is the bruised skin of something extinct
    that has been stretched, pulled tight
    across the high-rise limbs of the city.”
    Or this, from Old Crow Café, Front Street ...
    “I left with a quadruple Americano, a
    tattoo of a raven on my thigh

    the feeling, it may not be too late, to
    learn the banjo, run away, join the circus.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Bow Publishing
    Release dateJul 16, 2018
    ISBN9781927616697
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      The Narrow Road to the Far West - Alan Hill

      The Narrow Road to the Far West

      By Alan Hill

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author

      Copyright © 2018 Silver Bow Publishing

      Cover Design: Candice James

      Cover Photo: City of New Westminster Museum archives

      All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate this book or any portions thereof, in any form.

      e-book isbn 978-1-927616-69-7

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Hill, Alan, 1965-, author

      The narrow road to the Far West : travelling New Westminster by postcard by Alan Hill.

      Includes index.

      Poems.

      ISBN 978-1-927616-69-7 (softcover)

      I. Title.

      PS8615.I46N37 2018    C811'.6    C2018-901647-7

      © 2018 Silver Bow Publishing

      ISBN 978-1-927616-69-7

      info@silverbowpublishing.com

      Introduction

      This collection of poems is my, very personal, tribute to some of the places that have meant most to me in my time living in New Westminster. This book is an exploration of my own mental and geographical landscape, but I hope you will find poems here that resonate with your own lives. Like poets

      everywhere, I have dug in to explore the general in the very particular, the heaven in a wild flower, universe in grain if sand; or in this case pub or dollar store. I am

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