First Edition: LukivPress (Quesnel, BC), 1999. [Distributed through the Quesnel Public Library]. Second Edition: CanTeach (Vancouver, BC), 2002. Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Various poems in this collection have appeared in one or more of Ahoy, Tale Spinners, The Speaker, Coffee Break, Carson Communique, Robin's Nest, Kwil Kids Quarterly, and Time for Rhyme. The author performed (singing, playing guitar) "I Love You" and "I Have a Car" at McNaugthon Café (June 13, 2013). An excerpt The Beast Beneath My Bed There's a creepy-crawly monster Underneath my bed; It's a horribly hairy beastie With an ugly purple head. I know it's there; I know it is; I hear it in the night. It'll groan and spit and even hiss, And maybe take a bite. Yes, maybe take a bite It will, And eat up both my feet, So never do I let them hang Outside my cotton sheet. I worry much About this thing, This thing that lurks below. I chew my nails And try to sleep And utter not a peep. But down below That toothy nest Of jaws and paws and claws Is waiting just to eat me While I try to get some rest. If only I could teach it Not to treat me so. Just how do I do that? Does anybody know? The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).