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Tuesday 24 September 2024

Double collection: Katherine L. Gordon and James Deahl

from SureWay Press website

Congratulations: “Awareness” by two fine Canadian poets: Katherine L. Gordon and James Deahl

We are glad to publish “Awareness”, a fine poetry collection by two fine Canadian poets: Katherine L. Gordon and James Deahl. Live Encounters Poetry and Writings featured their poems from this book in the August issue (Katherine’s two poems James Deahl’s two poems). Epoch Quarterly (Taiwan, 创世纪诗刊 has featured their poems from this book with Anna Yin’s translations (Chinese) in fall issue 2024 #220. 

About the authors: 

Katherine L. Gordon is a poet, publisher, author, editor, anthologist, judge, reviewer and literary critic. She has many books, chapbooks, co-operative books and anthologies internationally. She is the recipient of many awards including Best Foreign Author from the 9th international edition of “I Colori Dell Anima” Italy. She earned an award from The World Poetry Association for her contribution to peace poetry. Her work is translated into many languages and will appear this year in a U.S./Korean anthology and two international collections in Italy and China. Katherine believes that poetry is a unifying force across the planet.

James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh during 1945, and grew up in that city as well as in and around the Laurel Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970. He is the author or editor of over thirty books (mostly poetry) and is the author of fifteen poetry chapbooks. A cycle of his poems is the focus of a one-hour American television special, Under The Watchful Eye. As a literary critic, Deahl has written about Milton Acorn, Raymond Souster, and Bruce Meyer, as well as sixteen leading poets of the Confederation Period, and he has presented university lectures on Alden Nowlan, Robert Kroetsch, Canadian Postmodernism, and the People’s Poetry tradition.


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