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The Sonnets of Gary Langford

Author: Gary Langford

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-06-18

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1514495406

The Sonnets of Gary Langford is a collection of his best sonnets, a few reprinted from his previous books, Gary Langford Reading From His Poems, www.poetryarchive.org Others were written for what is his ultimate collection of sonnets, aptly published as his fourteenth book of poetry for this very reason. Many of the sonnets are gems. Gary is the author of 34 books, of which 10 are novels, 4 are collections of stories, 14 are poetry, 3 are drama sketches, and 2 are textbooks of writing, along with his recent Memoir of a Teacher Writer. The collection shows his wide approach to story telling, as he has used sonnets in some of his plays, and, as you will see here, he turns pieces of his prose into sonnet form, drum tight, yet easy to understand. Each of these is a selected piece he has finely crafted. This has one of his best prose endings in his novel, Newlands, performed many times, including on the radio, and now as a prose sonnet. He has a few visual sonnets as well in this beautiful work of contemplative thought and comedy. Walking through the sonnets. Dreams burn. Wheels turn.

Newlands

Author: Gary Langford

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-07-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 151449793X

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REYNOLDS UPDIKE soldier, farmer, car salesman, electrical goods manufacturer, lover, father and living treasure, reflected in the declining years of his century as a splendid cook in a womens refuge, a poet and even a dog. Through two wars and two depressions, from the mind of Gallipoli by way of the Jazz Age to a brave new world of market forces, an unmistakable voice describes the fears and passions of this extraordinary human being. Reynolds leaves his imprint on everyone from ordinary people to royalty until he raises his glass to us all as an unburdened and unforgettable man. Newlands is one of the outstanding novels of New Zealand literature, reflected in being broadcast by Radio New Zealand repeatedly in the nineties when it first appeared, along with chapter one being published by the Australian newspaper. This is a novel that draws on historical and personal events as intimate studies of us all. Randy, opinionated, unscrupulous but above all loving Reynolds Updike leads us to the eve of his second one hundred years on this planet. Will he get there? Newlands is a comic tour-de-force of a beautifully written novel. Gary Langford makes it impossible for the reader not to care in this ageless work.

A Teacher’S Guide to Writing

Author: Gary Langford

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 1524516228

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A Teacher's Guide to Writing is a textbook to help writers at all levels, predominantly through all the exercises, to reflect this in the different areas of interest and ability from school to tertiary students and community groups and from the young to the old; however, this is classified. There are around two hundred creative writing exercises to help in what Gary calls word fitness along with reflective notes on major writing areas, like poetry and fiction, along with the performing area, building up to what it takes for a writer to get published. This textbook reflects the major achievements of the author as a teacher-writer from founding major areas and degrees to being asked to give guest appearances whether as a teacher, writer, or both. What sets this textbook apart from others on the same subject is primarily the authors background reflected both in the notes and all the exercises for people to try to develop the what, who, and how of their own work in the field of creative writing.

A Teacher's Guide to Drama

Author: Gary Langford

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-05-19

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1514495376

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Gary Langford is the author of 33 books, including 2 previous textbooks, reflecting his talent as a teacher writer. The others are 10 novels, such as Vanities (Macmillan), Newlands (Penguin) and Sohrab (Amazon Kindle), 14 books of poetry, including The Sonnets of Gary Langford as his 14th collection, and 4 collections of his short stories. He has also written 5 musicals in the period he founded and ran a theatre, The Playhouse, at what was then the Macarthur College of Advanced Education, Sydney. In this period he directed around 75 shows, many of which he wrote. He was also the director of shows that toured schools, utilizing puppets, along with revues that played to schools, whether in a school hall or outside. A Teacher’s Guide to Drama grew from drama subjects he founded and ran, including Oral Communication, Drama in the Classroom, Children’s Theatre and Puppetry, along with Writing and Performance that culminated in shows that also toured schools, notably high schools in the south-west of Sydney. A key to open the door for you is his teacher writer background enabling him to try all the exercises that you will find in here. Some are old and traditional, others he originated and used in drama workshops that he ran. Rest assured, there will be something for you in this practical and amusing textbook. Hidden rooms of the mind are in a garden. Each one hears the language of the flowers.

Cafe Sonnets

Author: Gary Langford

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780473177041

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Lunch at the Storyteller's Restaurant

Author: Gary Langford

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1514497905

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LUNCH AT THE STORYTELLERS RESTAURANT is a magical collection of stories by a Master Storyteller, containing his best stories with a twist of the unexpected in a dimension of the outlandish/supernatural. These twenty finely tuned stories on individuals or couples are funny, grotesque and macabre while at the same time holding the readers appetite for more engrossing of a weird gallery in a jazz set of energy and coherence to ensure you stay in the refrain for as long as they play. Gary Langfords first stories were published in the citys newspaper when he was at school. Since then more than 250 of his stories have been published or broadcast, including 80 in his books of stories. Lunch at the Storytellers Restaurant is his piece-de-resistance of stories with all of them published or broadcast numerous times in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, such as the notable The Couple Who BBQ Cats, Radio NZ, then CBC, North America, to be voted in the top 5 stories in the world, 1995, later in the anthology, Cats, Random House, NZ, 2005.

Water Rock Time

Author: Don Langford

Publisher:

Published: 2024-05-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Don Langford's fourth collection of poems, Water Rock Time, presents a more personal side of the poet's exploration of impermanence, loss, and patience than expressed in his previous books. Some of the poems are insightful descriptions of natural scenes that convey the poet's perceptive observations of the ramifications of change over time. In other poems he displays his wit and linguistic skill in demonstrating the limitations and shortcomings of language itself, sometimes teasing reader expectations through his sardonic and surreal playfulness with language. Above all, this collection is a wide-ranging exploration by a traveler moving through physical and psychological landscapes with wonder and reverence, always inviting the reader to look more deeply into our social relationships and our interactions with the natural world around us.