A hockey memoir in poetry from the Cold War to the present in Canada, the USA, the USSR, and China, from Gravenhurst, Muskoka, to Dalian, featuring the big themes -- love and death.
The Tao Of China And The U.S.A. is a book of poetry inspired by Taoism, China, and the U.S.A.. These poems celebrate the way the big countries can work together. Inspired by Kung Fu Panda 3 and other contemporary pop culture icons and events.
You Are Connor McDavid is a short novel dedicated to hockey's great new talent. The story is told in second person so you can identify with the young phenom. You are a generational talent, the leading scorer in the OHL, soon to be the number one draft pick in the NHL, winning gold for Canada at the World Juniors.
A doctor and a nurse -- a cancer doctor and an actress who plays a nurse -- are soul mates. A Canadian doctor changes his name to Bethune and moves to China when his love for an old friend goes unrequited.
The Moon Represents My Heart, by Martin Avery, is a sci fi novel with a romance about a Canadian writer who wins the Nobel Prize for Literature and gets invited to be the first Writer In Residence on The Moon in China's Moon colony.
The Mermaid And The Monk: Zen Poems, by Martin Avery, part of The Great Wall Of China Books Series, is a collection of poems about mermaids and monks and a love affair between a mermaid and a monk that would make a great movie as a sequel to The Mermaid.
BethuneÕs War In China: In His Own Words (Poetry Notes For A New Novel) by Martin Avery is the result of the author's attempt to channel Dr. Norman Bethune to get his side of the story re: his work in the mountains of China.
The Longest Poem In Canada (Made In China): Spring, Again is Book One of a four volume series, a very long poem, part of The Great Wall Of China Book Series by Canadian author Martin Avery, in China, with 60 books and counting, plus 100 set in the West, as he aims to be one of the most prolific writers in history. The Longest Poem In Canada will be close to 1000 pages and 200, 000 words. Collect them all! It's about the big themes: life, death...
Winter, Again: The WorldÕs Longest Hockey Poem is Book Two Of The Longest Poem In Canada, by Martin Avery. Winter, Again alludes to Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, And Spring, Again. It's an epic poem about waking up, working on enlightenment, while checking out hockey online. It incorporates the greatest in hockey history and a poet's connection to the game after years of Zen training.
The Yin And Yang Of China And Canada: Book 3 In The Longest Canadian Poem In History by Martin Avery is book #69 in The Great Wall Of China Book Series.
Love and Peace, Health and Wealth, With Grace and Ease and Perfect Timing:New Age Prayers And Poems, by Martin Avery, DISH, is all about praying, manifesting, opening a coning, working on enlightenment, staying in heaven while surrounded by devas but still working on enlightenment, and waking up before you die.
Many of my poems have the same theme, the same punch-line:Wake up before you die!Why are you watching hockey on TV whenyou should be working onreaching higher and higherlevels of enlightenment?
Two doctors, a Chinese woman and a man from Canada who has changed his name to Bethune, travel to Harbin for the winter carnival during Spring Festival, he stays at a hostel in an old synagogue, dreams about his previous life as a zek going from the Gulag to the Holocaust to Hiroshima, comes back with a cure for cancer.
Love In The Time Of Global Warming, With Betty And Veronica, and Zombies, lives up to all the promise in its title. It's the story of two romances, a love triangle, and Zen relationships, set in Riverdale, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, during the time when planetary overheating made it look like the end of the world as we know it.
Canadian author Martin Avery received the Oneness Blessing and the Awakening Blessing in 2010 and then wrote this book describing the Awakening Process and the Oneness Movement in Canada, North America, India, and around the world.
A magical realist novel, a short novel, set in Muskoka, that brings Norman Bethune back from the dead, along with Renee Caisse, with her cure for cancer. The sequel to A Trip Around Lake Muskoka With Norman Bethune.
A magical realist travel book about a trip around Lake Muskoka which brings Dr. Norman Bethune back to life and he discovers a local cure for cancer, amongst many other things
In 2013, Canadian author and educator Martin Avery, MFA in Writing, travelled from Toronto to Vancouver to Tokyo to Dalian, China, and wrote this travel book while in the air and in Dalian. It is a first person memoir like a non-fiction novel that describes first impressions of a flight across Canada, a flight across the Pacific Ocean, a night in Japan, and a trip into the People's Republic of China.
