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    City of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems
    City of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems
    City of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems
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    City of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems

    By Candice James

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    City of Dreams is a collection of poems written during Candice James' 6 year tenure as Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster, BC CANADA. These poems are about New Westminster and include the commissioned poem and historical poems reflecting past and present day life in New Westminster. The book also includes 5 full colour pictures of landmarks and landscapes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Bow Publishing
    Release dateMar 3, 2017
    ISBN9781927616468
    City of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems

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      City of Dreams -the New Westminster Poems - Candice James

      City of Dreams – the New Westminster Poems

      By Candice James

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      Copyright © 2016 Silver Bow Publishing

      Cover Photo and Design: Janet Kvammen

      Proof Reader: Janet Kvammen

      Layout/Design: Candice James

      All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate

      this book or any portions thereof, in any form

      ISBN 978-1-927616-46-8

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      James, Candice, 1948-, author

      City of dreams : the New Westminster poems / by Candice

      James, Poet Laureate Emerita, New Westminster, BC, Canada.

      ISBN 978-1-927616-46-8 (e-book)

      I. Title.

      PS8569.A429C58 2016  C811'.54  C2016-907774-8

      Silver Bow Publishing

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      New Westminster, BC

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      Acknowledgements

      I thank the City of New Westminster BC for appointing me Poet Laureate for two consecutive three year

      terms (June 2010 – June 2016) and then bestowing upon me the title Poet Laureate Emerita, New

      Westminster, in November 2016. It has indeed been my honour to serve.

      During my term as Poet Laureate, I was commissioned to write many poems recording the history of the

      city. I also took it upon myself to write more than just the commissioned poems and wrote poems

      about the beginning history of New Westminster, the landscapes and landmarks of the city and her

      people.

      And, during my term I founded Royal City Literary Arts Society; Poetry New Westminster; Poetry in the

      Park; Poetic Justice; and Slam Central.

      I thank my wonderful and talented friend Janet Kvammen for designing the cover of this book and for all

      the photographs included in the book (pages 9; 31; 49; 71; 83); and I thank Tony Antonias, Jonathan

      Cote, Chuck Puchmayr, Lorrie Williams, Betty McIntosh, Bill Harper and Wayne Wright for their support

      during my term as Poet Laureate. I also thank Paul Minhas (the Heritage Grill) and Lavana La Brey

      (Renaissance Bookstore) and the Arts Council New West for lending me their venues to promote poetry

      in New Westminster.

      And, as always, I thank my mentor, Fred Cogswell for his encouragement and belief in my poetic abilities

      back in the very early days in the 1970’s. Without his encouragement I may never have continued

      writing poetry and this book may not have come to be. Thank-you Fred, wherever you are.

      New Westminster on the Fraser River

      THE UNSUNG HEROES

      (Commissioned for the Civic Dinner Feb 26, 2013)

      Outside the New

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