End of Season: Award-Winning Poems [Paperback]

John Howard Reid (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Lulu.com (December 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0557022894
• ISBN-13: 978-0557022892
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,589,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Howard Reid is the creator of Merryll Manning, the Miami-based police sergeant who made his debut in "Merryll Manning: Trapped on Mystery Island". This book was followed by "Merryll Manning: The Health Farm Murders" and "Merryll Manning: Beachfront Holiday". Next up is "Merryll Manning On the Rim of Heaven."

All 12 books in the series were published overseas from 1985 through 2001. All, except "Merryll Manning: Trapped on Mystery Island", were runaway bestsellers and ran through many editions, including hardcover, paperback (both trade and mass market) and Large Print.

All 12 novels except "Merryll Manning: Beyond Vengeance", on which the critics were divided, attracted highly favorable and indeed overwhelmingly enthusiastic reviews. The author was favorably compared with both Agatha Christie and Graham Greene.

Reid's historical novels, especially "In All His Glory" (set in Ancient Egypt), have also won wide acclaim. His short stories and poems have gained many prizes and commendations. Published prose collections include "Mexican Autumn" and "Micaela Morris in Jo's Heaven". Poetry anthologies include "Anyone for Love?", "Escape to Paradise and Other Poetic Fancies" (published under his "Tom Howard" pseudonym) and "A Salute to Spanish Poetry: 100 Masterpieces from Spain and Latin America rendered into English verse."

Reid is also a widely acknowledged expert on Hollywood movies. His latest book in this field is "Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD: A Guide to the Best in Cinema Thrills".

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5.0 out of 5 stars 35 Sensitive, Lyrical, Poignant, Powerful, Alluring Poems, December 17, 2008

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John Howard Reid (Wyong, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: End of Season: Award-Winning Poems (Paperback)

The 35 poems in this sleek, attractive, little anthology were all award-winners in the inaugural Tom Howard Poetry Contest. This book was first published in a limited edition in 2003. In response to demand, it was reprinted twice in 2004. As the above contest moves into its seventh year, and sales of its more recent anthologies such as TRAVELING: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poetry and SAILING IN THE MIST OF TIME: Fifty Award-Winning Poems show no signs of abating (in fact, they have increased dramatically in 2008), it seemed appropriate to re-issue the first anthology, not only to satisfy demand and make the collection complete, but to demonstrate the extremely high standard achieved by competitors from the very first. Six poems written by the Chief Judge are also included, plus a comic fantasy composed by both the current judges. Forty-two poems in all!

The Tom Howard Contest is one of the few prestigious poetry contests that will accept poems in all styles and genres, including comic verse. Adam Wallace's delightfully humorous "Jeremy Johnson Jackson the Third" won an appropriate Third Prize and his "Bike Riding" was Most Highly Commended. Also in favor are descriptive poems. Ann Tregenza's "Train Journey" delighted the judges who awarded her Second Prize: "A brown grasshopper jumps into space,/ a flickering flash on an unused track,/ with rustle of wings climbing the air." First Prize was deservedly won by Jennie Herrera for her superb narrative, "Fritillary", a poem as unusual as the title: "Sweet bright grasses fringed about a secret cove,/ With little rasping voices, softer than the waves that curl,/ Softer than the winds that trill a harmony across the dunes,/ Telling tales ..." You can read these wonderful poems in full, plus 39 others in all styles and genres, in "End of Season".