The Neighbour, poetry

Revised Edition (entitled The Neighbour): LukivPress (Canada), 2022.

An excerpt

The Neighbour

He prunes and weeds and-

He's gift-wrapped

With "please" and "thank you"

And silk ties,

His wife counts fat-grams

On a rosary,

And his two children

Ride the honor roll.

But he does not like himself-

That's his secret.

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).