Close to two hundred poems set in Canada describing a journey from east to west, from Toronto to Edmonton, from southern... More > Ontario to Northern Alberta, from Coldwater, Ontario, to Cold Lake, Alberta, and life in a northern town. Funny, serious, fun, found, free verse .... Poems about hockey, caribou, polar bears, magpies, travel, the Rockies, the Prairies, Toronto, global warming .... < Less

A novel about the causes of happiness and the secrets of enlightenment and Zen, set in the Zen Forest.

A non-fiction novel about the year 2035, the year predicted to be the start of a new era, after global change in 2012. It's... More > about ancestral healing, miasma healing, and breaking through resistance to "wake up". It's about enlightenment. < Less

Love And Heaven is a long story and a short novel about kayaking around Georgian Bay and traveling to Omega for a Tantra... More > workshop. It's a love story and travel memoir. < Less

A non-fiction novel about a woman who discovers meditation and wakes up fast at a Zen Buddhist retreat center. Inspired by... More > Eat, Pray, Love, she tries meditating and is surprised to discover she is good at it. One in a thousand, the Zen master says. She finds meditation is easy, for her, but waking up is hard to do. < Less

"Love is as strong as death, as hard as Hell," they say. Would you like to remain attached to that belief? A funny, sad... More > novel about relationships, the three day novel contest, the Zen Forest, Farmville, and finding love and enlightenment on the internet. < Less

It's a page-turner with a mystery and a whodunnit wrapped in a thriller, with Nazis, Communists, Norman Bethune and Tom... More > Thompson in the middle, and it becomes a psychological horror, that's funny, fun, and has a surprise ending that is oddly satisfying and will stay with you forever. < Less

An issue-oriented, contemporary story exploring a universal theme, with a compelling, unified plot and strong, sympathetic... More > protagonists, well-researched, dealing with important historical subjects. < Less

Zen Forest Haiku: 100 Haiki And One Long Poem About The Zen Idiot By: M. Avery

100 poems inspired by the ghost of Al Purdy