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Route 77 is a biography and poetic travelogue; it is wisdom; it is esoteric; it is funny. Spirituality gets Dorian's attention, as does nature, philosophy, psychology, animals, dreams. It offers a paradox of mysticism and the concrete, where eclectic material jumps around like beans in a sizzling pan (he includes a Greek recipe.) Dorian dubs this original format as a kind of Babushka with seven dolls. Imagine each doll decorated with eleven symbols and images. Holograms. This innovative approach also serves as a creative writing manual, a sequel to his The Writer's Voice (1998). Dorian's mastery of teasing-out the right words prompted one reader to say, I confess I had goose bumps - was it the writing or the red wine? How wonderful when metaphor and fruity tannins coalesce. Bios are often a once-off read. This book deserves a second, or third foray with its poems, prose and personality. We encounter Dorian's commitment to personal development through his insatiable curiosity and his love for the land he treads. The tortoise (his logo) carries him to far off places: the back of this land is tortoise shell, its case cast by ancient waves, its plates taken from ancestral fish.....and led by an amphibian chin, in folk-tale steadiness, it crawls ever towards water.(Tortoise Land)

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Many of Dorian's followers, friends and the hundreds of people that have attended his workshops will be delighted with this publication. In it, Dorian shares a lifetime of reflection on the insights his work and reading have given him, the skills that he has acquired, and above all the many stories of Dorian, the consummate storyteller. You will meet again Oom Schalk Lourens who knows how to weave a yarn beside the fireplace, and you will meet too Dorian the Methodist, Dorian the Jew, Dorian the Hindu and Dorian the Buddhist and each one will give you a surprising and new perspective on life. Over the years Dorian has invited many people to the pen and the empty page to begin the magic and mystery of writing their own story and through that process to heal and re-imagine and re-story their lives. In that sense his work has been transforming in the lives of many, who have found their voice and have gone on to produce their own memoirs, write stories and publish their works. Add to that his work amongst children and young people in Namibia. In schools, colleges and university his work has helped to uplift struggling communities of children, and searching students. Then there is the poetry, and know that Dorian has written over one and a half thousand poems, a small portion of which are in this publication. New readers to the poetry may find that while the prose passages move smoothly with Dorian's lightness of touch, the poems slow things down and call for a different way of reading. Poems often require that you read them aloud over and over so that you pick up their rhythms, their music, their subtle levels of meaning. However, you may not want them to slow you down so I suggest you read them once, and come back to them later, when you can give more time to them. You may want to use them in your own quiet times, reflections and meditations. Thank you Dorian for sharing so much of your journey with us in Route 77. Bob Commin (February 2023) Poet, priest, storyteller and life-coach. His publications include: From a Still Point, Someone Dreaming Us, Becoming Human, Meditations on the way of the Cross, and Under the IIex Tree.

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Dorian is an academic, bohemian, acclaimed poet, raconteur and writing coach. Dorian left the safe but confined harbour of professorship to write, and to teach people to write. Dorian has helped thousands of writers, in Europe, The Americas, Africa and Australia, improve their prose and tell their story.

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