Reseña del libro "Beast Beneath My Bed, poetry for children (en Inglés)"
First Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 1999. [Distributed through the Quesnel Public Library]. Second Edition: CanTeach (Vancouver, BC), 2002. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Ahoy, Tale Spinners, The Speaker, Coffee Break, Carson Communique, Robin's Nest, Kwil Kids Quarterly, and Time for Rhyme. The author performed (singing, playing guitar) "I Love You" and "I Have a Car" at McNaugthon Café (June 13, 2013). An excerpt The Beast Beneath My Bed There's a creepy-crawly monsterUnderneath my bed;It's a horribly hairy beastieWith an ugly purple head. I know it's there;I know it is;I hear it in the night.It'll groan and spit and even hiss, And maybe take a bite. Yes, maybe take a biteIt will, And eat up both my feet, So never do I let them hangOutside my cotton sheet. I worry muchAbout this thing, This thing that lurks below.I chew my nailsAnd try to sleepAnd utter not a peep. But down belowThat toothy nestOf jaws and paws and clawsIs waiting just to eat meWhile I try to get some rest. If only I could teach itNot to treat me so.Just how do I do that?Does anybody know? The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).
