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...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

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

Picaroon

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

The Poetry Pond

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

Unpaginated

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

The Assignation (Pons Asinorum)

Paul Cameron Brown, Simple Poetry

English

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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

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

Bravura

    Memory as embankment,
    a mudslide at High Tide
    with shades up...
    my avocado green brethren
    pleasures the soil.

    Memory as enchantment
    a Belle at a Soiree,
    pureed, Gaston at a Dinner Party.

    Napanee suggests sympathy,
    a serendipity...
    as water winders its way
    to clay in a moonlight
    turn of the bottle,
    I shall find a way.
    that's ironclad.

Paul Cameron Brown

The Poetry Pond

    Everyone is a poet, or so the philosopher said. The world teems
    with poetry in much the sense the universe teems with life.
    A poet or two is squirrelled away in every major office.
    Boiler rooms hum with the tooth and nail, robust imagery of
    working class poets. The neurological desire to express oneself
    transcends even social barriers. Be creative, like a brain surgeon.
    My scalpel runneth over amongst all those cerebral ganglia.

    The mind washed clean, scrubbed down. Words burn holes on the
    paper. Firemen disguised as poets douse the heroic flames.
    Sherpas tightly drawn amidst depths of a Himalayan winter
    weather a torrent of words. Groggy, I search for breath, am given
    oxygen but see writing materials.

    In the future,...

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

Seaward

Whirl of patterned images,
deep seascape painting
hovering,
rustle, chokecherry
grown in
dark pigmented
stunted cove - animal
growl of pilotless sea,
metallic twinkle of sun
bright, stealing
bitter white
all bird life
rockward;
traces skimming
the intrusion
of pebbly shore,
autumnal night.

Paul Cameron Brown