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Henry Victor

mongoose in chicken house & other poems 

Author: Henry Victor Binding: Paperback (pp: 90) ISBN: 978-8182531673 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date: 2010 Cover Design: Gitanjali Victor Condition: New Description: Henry Victor – priest, professor, and poet - born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, now lives in Edmonton, continuing to write and enjoy watching his grandson Isaac Justin Victor grow. His earlier collections include the following: Stinging of the Scorpion & Other Poems (2006) and Three Faces & Other Poems (2007) are his most recent collections.

“Henry Victor’s verse is as much alliterate as bookish, rooted in both his conversational rhythms and his concept of poetics. These two urgencies – the need to utter and the need to write in a matching direct, even childlike way – inform his voice as it deals its cards of challenge to that most pervasive of Canadian consolations – the notion that we live in The Best Of All Possible Worlds, a notion that tends to whitewash the pain of immigrant loneliness and silence beneath our country’s multicultural ‘mosaic’. In mongoose in chicken house and other poems, that pain is given voice by a generous, trusting and moving intimacy well aware of the risks it faces in proposing itself within a Western tribalist climate of exclusive conformism by which generosity, trust and empathy are forged into convenient masks for complacency, fear and spite. Victor’s ‘cards’ critical of that climate appear side by side with less stark, if not more sentimental, brooding vignettes – familial, personal or phenomenal – which act as mirror-windows on a world of simplistic dismissals and literalist conformities only seemingly beyond their frames.”  

“Veining Victor’s stubbornly temporal themes (not excluding that of his own mortality) are the complaint, argument and revision at the heart of Christianity’s critique of the assumptive limiting demands of a materialist world. His writing, then, is the gif of an active faith involving as much intellectual probing as intuitive recognition, both grounded in a firm understanding of experiential mutuality – a sense challenging to our current world of anti-metaphoric separations proposing themselves (and subscribed to) as discrete.”  

Brian Chan, author of Scratches on the Air, Peepal Tree, 2010.

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Three Faces & Other Poems

Author: Henry Victor Binding: Paperback (pp: 88) ISBN: 978-81-8253-086-7 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date: 2007 Cover Design: Gitanjali Victor Condition: New Description: Henry Victor is an Anglican Priest of the Diocese of Edmonton and currently the Associate Priest at St Thomas' Church Sherwood Park. Henry Victor (whose roots are in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India) was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he had his early education. He then went to India to secure his degrees in Christian Theology and World Religions. Moving later to United Kingdom to complete his Ph D. Prior to settling in Alberta in July 2000 he worked in Pakistan and been a Professor of Comparative Religion in two of Sri Lankan Universities - University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) and Eastern University (Sri Lanka). Henry Victor is a widely published poet and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta teaching subjects related to Islam and Christianity and Community Action.

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Stinging of the Scorpion & Other Poems

Author: Henry Victor Binding: Paperback (pp: 96) ISBN: 81-8253-062-8 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher: Cyberwit.net Pub. Date: 2006 Condition: New Description: Henry Victor is an Anglican Priest of the Diocese of Edmonton and currently the Associate Priest at St Thomas' Church Sherwood Park. Henry Victor (whose roots are in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India) was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he had his early education. He then went to India to secure his degrees in Christian Theology and World Religions. Moving later to United Kingdom to complete his Ph D. Prior to settling in Alberta in July 2000 he worked in Pakistan and been a Professor of Comparative Religion in two of Sri Lankan Universities - University of Jaffna (Sri Lanka) and Eastern University (Sri Lanka). Henry Victor is a widely published poet and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta teaching subjects related to Islam and Christianity and Community Action. His collection of poems titled No Tears and Frail Floret were published in Sri Lanka in 1998 and 1999 respectively. Cyberwit.Net published Henry Victor's poems in The Postmodern Temperament: Fifteen Poets (2003) and The Ferment of Images (2004). Henry Victor is married to Chandra whose roots are also in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, and they have a 16-year-old daughter Gitanjali.

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Balcony

Pragmatism of that liberated mind
Declines detention to a deficient
Four by fourteen feet balcony
Shutdown at least for four months 
Bare feet that knew every single
Sharp stone scattered in space
Of forty five thousand square feet
Want to walk with freedom
Balcony provides hardly legroom
With two wheelers willingly volunteering
For greedy North Americans piling
Garages with power over southerners
Two bicycles stranded in balcony
With no room to race, but relieving
The two plastic chairs salvaged
From earlier European garbage
Chained feet determined to hike
Clings to creative craft command
Surrendering not to tiny balcony
Sliding valleys and climbing hills