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    Deadly Pollen
    Deadly Pollen
    Deadly Pollen
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    Deadly Pollen

    By Stephen Oliver

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    Deadly Pollen
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    Stephen Oliver

    Stephen has been interested in personal growth and the bringing out of the best of people’s potential for well over 40 years. Even as a computer programmer and systems analyst since the beginning of the ’80s, his aim has always been to improve the quality of life for himself and others. This interest led him to learn about psychology and growth techniques, resulting in his becoming an NLP Practitioner (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in 1993.At the beginning of 1994, he came into contact with Reiki, attending a First Degree Reiki seminar run by a Reiki Master of The Reiki Network® with his parents. Seeing the improvements that Reiki brought to the whole family, they quickly went on to the Second Degree. It became apparent to him that Reiki was one of the best tools for the non-invasive support of personal growth that he’d encountered, so he applied for training as a Reiki Master within the Network. He finished his year’s training mid-1996, and now gives treatments and teaches Reiki in English and German, in England, Switzerland and Spain.In 2004, he began a training course as an adult educator, which he completed in the following year. As part of his training, he created the written training concept that The Reiki Network® now uses.In 2013, he published his first self-help book and is now a full-time writer. He started working on a follow-up self-help book as soon as the previous one was published. However, he has since started writing fiction, with genres including science fiction, space opera, fantasy, urban fantasy, magical realism, horror, fairy tales, fairy stories, noir, detective fiction, action, thriller, humour, YA, and children's stories. He is presently seeking to publish four anthologies and two novels while working on another three anthologies and three novels.

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      Deadly Pollen - Stephen Oliver

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Deadly Pollen, by Stephen Oliver

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      Title: Deadly Pollen

      Author: Stephen Oliver

      Release Date: March 9, 2004 [eBook #11522] [Most recently updated August 2, 2004]

      Language: English

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEADLY POLLEN***

      Copyright (C) 2003 by Stephen Oliver.

      DEADLY POLLEN

      Stephen Oliver

      WORD RIOT PRESS

      (c) Stephen Oliver, 2003

      Books by Stephen Oliver

      Henwise (1975)

      & Interviews (1978)

      Autumn Songs (1978)

      Letter To James K. Baxter (1980)

      Earthbound Mirrors (1984)

      Guardians, Not Angels (1993)

      Islands of Wilderness - A Romance (1996)

      Unmanned (1999)

      Election Year Blues (1999)

      Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978 - 2000 (2001)

      Deadly Pollen (2003)

      Ballads, Satire & Salt (2003)

      Recordings

      Earthbound Mirrors, a selection, Stephen Oliver,

      Ode Records Label, Auckland, (cassette) 1984

      For more information on Stephen Oliver visit: http://people.smartchat.net.au/~sao/

      Cover design: Pina Ricciu. Cover image: The Lithuanian Bison, engraving from J. von Brincken, 1828.

      Acknowledgements: Antipodes (USA), Biff's Quarterly (USA), Brief (NZ),

      Catalyzer Journal (USA), Comet Magazine (San Francisco), JAAM (NZ),

      Poetry NZ/26 featured poet, San Francisco Salvo, Spreadhead (USA),

      Thylazine (Aust).

      An Actual Encounter With the Sun On / My Balcony At France Street: a parody on Frank O'Hara's 'A True Account Of Talking / To The Sun At Fire Island' who in turn based his account on Mayakovsky's more robust poem, 'A Most Extraordinary Adventure'. POETS' PALACE: a name given by the author to an old Kauri, weatherboard guest house in France Street (the upper story of which he occupied in the early '80s) near the prostitute's strip off K'rd, Auckland. Various 'emerging' poets & artists lived downstairs at intervals during this period. As the last of its kind in Newton Gully this 100 year old wooden building was finally demolished at the close of the decade.

      Deadly Pollen is published by

      Word Riot Press

      PO Box 414

      Middletown, NJ 07748

      USA

      http://www.wordriot.org/press

      ISBN 0-9728200-2-7

      Typeset by Word Riot Press in Bembo

      Contents

      Deadly Pollen

      1. 'ZIONISM:'

      2. 'You return to the stupa, yearly,'

      3. 'The stones collected. Ground'

      4. ' With digital, there is no past, '

      5. 'How is it the floating island'

      6. 'Mediocre

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