Canadian Book Review Annual 1985

Le voyage exotique devient parfois fantistique...
Se plonger dans les pages de "Sympathetic Magic", c' est
partir pour un autre monde oil Paul Cameron Brown
envoute par les mots et les images.

Paul Cameron Brown

Paul Cameron Brown is a Canadian poet known for his extensive work in both poetry and art criticism. Born in western Canada, Brown has had a prolific career in writing, often intertwining themes of human experience and nature. His works have been showcased in various literary magazines and anthologies. With a style that is both reflective and evocative, he has gained recognition not only in Canada but also internationally.

Paul Cameron Brown

Triangular Trade

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

Sabbat

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

A Thief's Notebook

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

Airbrush

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

French

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Comments

    ... Unrestrained, imaginative writing.
    Brown's magic is the vibrating universe,
    his sympathy is his ability to receive these
    vibrations. Sympathetic Magic captures
    the movement of life in its intervals -
    his poems resemble stopped action photographs from a film.
    THE TORONTO STAR



    ... The poetry is fine ...    rewarding reading ...
    Almost every poem in Sympathetic Magic boasts
    an admirable image or two. Brown can write,
    without a doubt.
    POETRY CANADA POESIE



    ... Wry humour.
    The poet revels in image and can use it well.
    Paul Cameron Brown is capable of interesting,
    even arresting work.
    CANADIAN BOOK REVIEW ANNUAL 1985



    Le voyage exotiqu...

Paul Cameron Brown

The Toronto Star

...The poetry is fine... rewarding reading...
Almost every poem in Sympathetic Magic
boasts an admirable image or two.
Brown can write, without a doubt.

Paul Cameron Brown

Poetry Canada Poesie

...wry humour.
The poet revels in image and can use it well.
Paul Cameron Brown is capable of interesting,
even arresting work.

Paul Cameron Brown

Comments

...Unrestrained, imaginative writing.
Brown's magic is the vibrating universe,
his sympathy is his ability to receive these vibrations.
Sympathetic Magic captures the movement of life in its intervals -
his poems resemble stopped action
photographs from a film.

Paul Cameron Brown

Voyage

The mystique of the sea,
where waves act as snares,
hang boughs over wet
blackness wherever winds
die driven ashore.

Melancholy vastness-its pleasure
the dim lights swallowed
in glutton happiness
the further I search
the sea.

Paul Cameron Brown

Toronto

    Quennelles. Lady of the Gold Horse with Diamond Eyes.
    A bottle of Napoleon brandy for the Count and two Persian
    lions carved in wood.
    Salads Nicoise.
    Dinners at Pré Catalan in the Bois, a Toronto equivalent.
    A girl named Chantilly burning charcoal in the forest.
    I drank a cocktail with the girl of the white polo coat.
    Or as the cynic said, my pipe is the tent, the tobacco
    the days of my life.

Paul Cameron Brown