Introduction

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Paul Cameron Brown was born in London, England in 1948.

Moving to Canada, he grew up in Kingston before attending high school in the southern community of Chatham. He spent five years at University of Western Ontario in London with summers interspersed between work and travel. The early seventies saw trips to Europe, the West and Mexico.

Currently teaching high school in Brampton, his poems have appeared in Quarry, Nebula, Boreal, Northern Journey, Stuffed Crocodile, Tightrope, as well as a number of anthologies in the U.S.

"... One can instantly sense the private and resonant landscape in the delicate nature... exciting water colour, a true painter of words." Joe Rosenblatt

ISBN: 0-88823-002-8

Published by Three Trees Press P.O.Box 70, Postal Station "V" Toronto M6R 3A4 Canada

PAUL CAMERON BROWN Whispers

FOREWORD

Paul Brown has a carborundum eye for the most extreme poetic minutia at a time when most of the younger poets indulge in introspective rhetoric, dulling that faint minority of poem tasters. However, in Brown's case one can instantly sense the private and resonant landscape in the delicate - nature and anthro-pomorphic poems, radiant creations - exciting water colour, a true painter of words. The Three Trees Press should be congratulated for their poetic efforts in publishing Whispers, a splendid Volume.

Joe Rosenblatt

CONTENTS

RAIN FILM

9 UNDULATE, MY TONGUE 10 RAIN FILM 11 ISLES AND RIVULETS 12 SEAWARD 13 MALINGERING 14 VOYAGE 15 CHRYSALIS 16 THE BELLS 17 THE WORLD OF DYING LOVE

WHISPERS

19 DARKENING GREEN 20 WHISPERS 21 TRESPASS 22 FOREST SPITTLE 23 SEAGULLS 24 LA DOUCE MER 25 GOURDS 26 RESIGNATION 27 THE BREATH OF CANDLES 28 GREEN EYE SHIELDS 29 INVESTITURE 30 THE SPOKEN WORD

TESTIMONY

32 SMEARS 33 TESTIMONY 34 FORTRESS SNOW 35 CIENFUEGOS 36 DEVASTATION 37 BEE AN APPLE 38 EMPTINESS 39 CLAWS 40 MOON DARK WORLD 41 THE ELYSIAN FIELDS 42 BARBARY WHITE