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The Marvels of Youth
Tim Bowling
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R591
R498
Discovery Miles 4 980
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Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada's finest
established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain:
Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets is the first anthology
dedicated solely to the poetry of the Alberta landscape and
cityscape, by authors who have travelled the main roads, back
roads, and gravel roads of this vast province. This collection
offers a series of poetic journeys through Calgary and Edmonton,
through the foothills, the badlands, the Rockies, the central
parklands, and the northern boreal forests. Following in the
Canadian literary tradition of "preoccupation with place" these are
poems that demonstrate a response to the landscape and ponder its
effect on the body, mind, and spirit. With Contributions By: Ian
Adam Tammy Armstrong Margaret Avison Douglas Barbour John O. Barton
Doug Beardsley BonnieBishop E.D. Blodgett Robert Boates George
Bowering Tim Bowling Jan Boydol Gordon Burles Murdoch Burnett Anne
Campbell Weyman Chan Leonard Cohen Dennis Cooley Joan Crate Michael
Cullen Cyril Dabydeen Lorne Daniel Alexa DeWiel Jason Dewinetz Ryan
Fitzpatrick Cecelia Frey Gary Geddes Gail Ghai Deborah Godin Jim
Green Leslie Greentree Vivian Hansen Tom Henihan Michael Henry
Walter Hildebrandt Gerald Hill Robert Hilles Nancy Holmes Richard
Hornsey Tom Howe Bruce Hunter Aislinn Hunter Laurence Hutchman
Sally Ito Pauline Johnson Aleksei Kazuk Robert Kroetsch Fiona Lam
William Latta Tim Lilburn Alice Major Kim Maltman Miriam Mandel Sid
Marty David McFadden Barry McKinnon Erin Michie Deborah Miller Anna
Mioduchowska James M. Moir Colin Morton Erin Moure Charles Noble
P.K. Page Rajinderpal Pal Ruth Roach Pierson Joseph Pivato Roberta
Rees D.C. Reid Monty Reid r. rickey Ken Rivard Stephen Scobie Allan
Serafino Joan Shillington Greg Simison Carol Ann Sokoloff Karen
Solie Robert Stamp Stephan Stephansson Peter Stevens Ivan Sundal
Anne Swannell Vanna Tessier Colleen Thibadeau John O. Thompson
James M. Thurgood Eva Tihanyi Yvonne Trainer Aritha van Herk
Rosalee van Stelten Miriam Waddington Wilfred Watson James Wreford
Watson Tom Wayman Phyllis Webb Jon Whyte Christine Wiesenthal
Sheri-D Wilson Christopher Wiseman Stacie Wolfer Rita Wong Richard
Woollatt Jan Zwicky
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Tenderman (Paperback)
Tim Bowling
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R568
R286
Discovery Miles 2 860
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"I grew up in a blue-collar town ten minutes down the road from a
white-collar town. And I've spent most of my life uncomfortable in
both places."
With these opening words, accomplished poet Tim Bowling outlines
the central tension that acts as a vital force in his newest book,
Tenderman--the dichotomy between the sensitive poetic observer and
the tough, working-class subject. Bowling returns again to the
shores of his BC hometown that exert such a strong hold on his
imagination, but through his focus on the tenderman figure, he also
demonstrates wry self-awareness in doing so. The tenderman (a
crewman on a salmon packing boat), who represents a fiercely
independent everyman, acts as unintentional muse to the collection;
its poems are often delivered through dialogues between poet and
fisherman, reminiscences of their shared childhoods, or narratives
delivered by the tenderman himself.
As always, Bowling's verse is stunning in its haunting portrayal of
West Coast imagery, depicting both natural beauty ("the Spanish
silhouette/ crouched in warm salt dark") and the grim realities of
fishing ("The kicks and slaps of a hold of dying fish--/ hands in
an auditorium") with effortless grace.
Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that
affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors.
Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification,
exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer care,
but nutritional issues at the end of life can be accompanied by
contentious ethical factors as well as religious and cultural
influences that need to be addressed by health professionals. This
book enables physicians, nurses and also dieticians to better
discuss these complex issues with patients and their families.
This comprehensive reference book provides both background
information and practical, clinical advice for managing the cancer
patient at all stages of their disease trajectory. It includes
information that relates to patients who are continuing to receive
disease-specific therapy, the cancer survivor, as well as patients
with advanced or recurrent cancer receiving palliative care.
Basic principles such as epidemiology and physiology set the scene,
leading into the cachexia/anorexia syndrome, treatment options,
nutritional counselling, enteral and parenteral nutrition,
complementary/alternative therapies, exercise, clinical outcomes
measures in each of the clinical groups, and focus on special
populations and their specific needs. Multidimensional,
interdisciplinary clinical evaluation and treatment is emphasised,
and ethical, religious, and cultural factors are also addressed.
Multidisciplinary in nature, this book draws on the experience of
the editors' work across the fields of oncology, palliative care,
surgery, primary care, nursing, dietetics and nutritional science.
It will prove invaluable to all general practitioners, internists,
medical oncologists and surgeons, nurses, palliative care
specialists and related professionals involved in the care of the
cancer patient.
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