34 - North Shore News — Sunday, December 19, 1999

Century

’ January 199] — TREVOR
Carolan realized early that
his route to success would-

: ae be up the corporate lad-

er.

For somcone who
‘ran his ‘own. night-

’<. club by the time he

Was: 16, it was an
education in 60s.
sychedeiia, travel-:

_ ling and. eastern phi-
-losophy that charted
his success. =

oz It laid the founda-.
tion: for:'a Bohemian.’
outlook,.: one: that.

“I was the school hippic. In New
Westminster there was this social
aristocracy — a hill where the bour-
geoisie and nouveaux riches lived. If
you weren’t into the fraternities

you'd had it. I
earned at a very
early age that teach-
ers always ask, ‘what
docs your father
do?’ That,-in a way,
determines your
future.” (By this
rule, if Carolan’s
future was predeter-
mined it was enig-
Matic: his father, of
devout... ;
-Catholic: stock, ran’
“a | - Front Street
nightclub.
The-
Mark). ;
Carolan recognized
early his talent for
writing,
George Ryga (The

Ecstasy of Rita Joe) had 4 profound :

pact on him.
“He wrote about thin;
n’t Happenin’ polite culture,”

His owni poctry is extremely per-.

onal and ‘meditative in style

‘Inv Satori,’ Lonsdale Avenue, he.
describes being struck by the view of
the ‘water, flowers and. magnificent”:
m atop Lonsdale: Aveniie. ”
om as I glance fron: :
my voom/and the. westwind blowing -.

Lions ‘fron
“the flowers in bi

Irish -

called:
Question *

‘still watching The

ided to opt out of rat race

clean/tell me Vd rather stroll here/in
sight of the sea/than lunch at Elaine's
with Garcia Marques.”

Today Carolan makes his living as
a freelance non-fiction writer, a writ-
ing instructor, cditor, poet and
translator. . :

- SABURO Shibunama judges a pegasu

In 1988 he published a poetic

“transliteration of Taoist master Loy

Ching-Yuen’s poems, .The Book of
the Heart, which a large U.S. pub-
lisher is re-printing. ;

This time next year his anthology
of short stories from the Pacific Rim

should be appearing on bookshelves.
“Success is a slow process, it can
take years. When I asked my teacher -"’
how Jong it would take to learn tai”
chi, he Jooked at me and said, ‘10
years,” without blinking.
“I just gulped.”

@ of the Japanese entries to an in

_ stulpting competition held at Mount Seymour. Japan took home all three a