Bøker av John Camillo

KENNY IS A RARE HUMAN BEING, SUPER INTELLIGENT AND PHYSICALLY GIFTED...Where it is earned, his loyalty is total. His journey is bleak and often painful to experience alone. His purpose is unclear and his devotion to others is obvious. Kenny is a man of modest desire and strong convictions and both serve him in greatness and in bleakness...Through a tale of humanness, Kenny finds his story and walks the path he has been given and when confronted with choices, he makes those he feel best and may often find them to be wrong but with good reasons...Kenny loves, fears, desires, aspires and delivers all in the simple process of taking one breath after another...one day after another...He finds comfort in friends and as the fates bring them skimming stones on a clear lake, they toss them to skip across the glass water, skimming till they run out of energy and sink. Each ghost disappears from within when a stone sinks. A metaphor for all effort - wasted in the end..."e;A dark and disturbing tale of life and death in the purest forms; a philosophical journey that one comes out of with greater thought and stronger knowing...a masterful prose..."e; Francis, Indiebook reviewer

A young albatross finds safety with Tommy, amid the vast waters, beginning a relationship that would last across time.Tommy, orphan, escapes the fire of London on a cargo ship which is then plundered by pirates...he is captured and taken to their haven, hidden in the wilds of a jungle. Short Shanks, a wild and crazy pirate, visits the haven while his ship is refurbished to his higher standards. Tommy hides on Short Shanks ship but is found and cast adrift in a lifeboat by the surly Captain. A young albatross finds safety with Tommy, amid the vast waters, beginning a relationship that would last across time.Through growing up on an island with natives terrified of cosmic forces, to further tragic adventures on doomed vessels of the sea and a life immersed in death beyond the shadows and living as a hermit for 150 years with only a mind of tortured memories...Tommy shares his story with a young man who happens to be a distant descendant and the dark spell over him is broken. The author thought that Coleridge's 'Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' would be a sure-fire winner for students years ago. He was fascinated with the visual masterpiece and he has finally come up with this adaptation based on the original poem. A classic for a new generation of readers and a revitalised enthusiasm that the story will find the reception it deserves. "A classic retelling of a wonderful poem and given such fresh passion for new readers, well done and shall make sure my children know this tale as I am sure generations to come will also..." Derek, Indiebook Reviewer

To find the single thread in a tangled maze of string takes patience, focus and persistence. The thread recovered can be woven into something useful or artistic. Our minds are tangled with a maze of experiences, observations, feelings and ideas. A moment of inspiration drops into that maze and it takes the same skills used on the string to find the simple, whole thread that becomes art. ‘We are all exposed to inspirational moments that pounce on us, apparently from nowhere,’ says John Camillo. ‘It is possible that we all have the initial flash of an idea or picture or tune. The thing is that it takes concentrated effort to embody the magic of a moment into a finished, communicative product. There is truth in the old saying that good ideas are twopence a ton. Most of them are not grabbed, moulded and polished into works of greatness.’Here is a collection of poems written between 2008 and 2016. They are the author’s attempt at catching some of those moments when bright things flash into his mind. They deal with the everyday – his in particular, but very often ours as well. We journey with him through important times in his life and share his emotions and reflections of those times.John Camillo has gathered his observations and done the work of moulding and polishing, and then presented them to us, his readers: ‘I offer them to you for what you might see.’He expands this invitation to us:‘What do you notice on your way to the train station each morning, or creeping along the tolled freeways in your car, or sitting at the kitchen table amidst the noise of a family dinner, or watching a young child hurtling around the place chasing the hapless family pet dog or cat … These poems represent some of the things that have flashed the author’s mind over the last little time. Enjoy, reflect, respond.’