The Raising Light Trilogy - Johnson, Mike

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Résumé :
The Toy Box: navigating the realms of myth-making, fairytales and storytelling, Johnson's The Toy Box is a magical poetry collection. Johnson is a master stoyteller. Shifting between the worlds of the adult and child, The Toy Box sees the author at his creative best. Hide your Eyes - The Rumi Poems: Ever popular thirteenth century persian poet, Rumi acts as poetic inspiration and intermediary in this powerful new collection of love poems. At turns sacred and mystical, historic and contemporary, this suite of original verse sparkles with intensisity and pereceptiveness. Extinction Rebellion - A Tribute: Extinction Rebellion - A Tribute powerfully realizes the harsh reality of conemporary climate change. Spotlighting the vital issue of our times, the poems here lyrically explore the complexities of what it means to live on the brink of enviromental ruin.

Biographie:
Mike Johnson, fiction writer and poet, is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's most innovative writers. He lives on Waiheke Island and has taught creative writing at AUT University and the University of Auckland. In 2002 he received The University of Auckland's Literary Fellowship, having been Literary Fellow at Canterbury University in 1987. His first novel, Lear, the Shakespeare Company Plays Lear at Babylon was short listed for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1986, his novel Dumb Show won the Buckland Memorial Award for Literary Excellence in 1995, and he won the Frances Kean Award his short story, 'Magic Strings' in 1999. His first book of poetry, The Palanquin Ropes, (1983) was co-winner of the John Cowie Reed Memorial Competition. His non-fiction, Angel of Compassion, was shortlisted for the Ashton Whyle Award in 2014, and a poem from Vertical Harp, The selected poems of Li He (2006) has been anthologised in the Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (Random House, 2015). Mike Johnson is the author of twenty-six books including nine books of poetry, three of shorter fiction, one non fiction, three children's books, and ten novels.