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In 2005 John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford
in perpetuity.
The same year he received the distinction of being named
Honourary Life Member of
The Canadian Poetry Association.
In 2007 he was made a member of
the Chancellor’s Circle of the President’s Club of McMaster University and named first recipient of the
inaugural Black Moss Press Souwesto
Award
for his
contribution to the ethos of writing in Southwestern Ontario.
A recipient of over seventy
prestigious international awards for his writing he is
winner of
$10,000 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the only
two time recipient of
the People’s Poetry Award,
and 2006 winner of the inaugural Souwesto/Orison Writing Award (University of Windsor).
In 2007 he was named winner of
the Winston Collins Award for Best Canadian Poem and in
2010 he received the
International Poets Academy Lifetime Achievement Award for his
contribution to Global Peace through World Poetry
and
he is the
recipient of the University of
Western Ontario Alumini
Professional
Achievement Award.
He has well-over fifty books
published to date and is the editor of seven anthologies
including
two best-selling works: That Sign of Perfection:
poems and stories on the
game of hockey; and Smaller Than God: words of
spiritual longing.
His work has appeared internationally
in over 500 publications, and has been translated into
French, Spanish, Korean, Hungarian and
Chinese. He has read his work in nations all over the world including South Africa, France,
Korea, Cuba, Canada and
the United States.
He has been to Cuba on
many occasions, is a member in good standing of the
Canada Cuba Literary Alliance and his book of poems Island
on the Wind-Breathed
Edge of the Sea (Hidden
Brook Press, 2009) was inspired by
his travels in Cuba.
He has received letters
of praise from Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Australian Poet,
Les Murray, and Senator Romeo Dallaire. Called “the
greatest living poet in English,” by poet
George Whipple.
He lives in Port Dover,
Ontario, Canada where he works as a full time author.
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