Poet Laureate of Brantford & Norfolk County


Award Winning Canadian Poet & Writer
 

 

 

 

 
          Part 1 - Education
        Part 2 - Editor
               - Publisher
                - Book Reviewer
               - Performer
       Part 3 - Instructor
       Part 4 - Researcher      
       Part 5 - Affiliation
        Part 6- Books Published
 
 
 
 
 
 




 

 

 

 

 



 

























 

Poetry Books Published



Poems Only A Dog Could Love, Applegarth Follies, 1976
Love Among the Tombstones, Dogwood Press, 1980
Fossils of the Twentieth Century, Vesta Publications, 1983
Hired Hands, Brick Books, 1986 (Runner Up for the People’s Poetry Award)
Small Worlds, Vesta Publications, 1986
Rediscovered Sheep, Brick Books, 1989
The Bad Philosophy of Good Cows, Black Moss Press, 1989
The Pig Dance Dreams, Black Moss Press, 1991 (Winner of the People’s Poetry Award)
The Hockey Player Sonnets, Penumbra Press, 1991
When Shaving Seems Like Suicide, Goose Lane Editions, 1991
Variations on Herb, Brick Books, 1993 (winner of the People’s Poetry Award)
The Art of Walking Backwards, Black Moss Press, 1993
All the Cats Are Gone, Penumbra Press, 1993
These Are the Days of Dogs and Horses, Black Moss Press, 1994
The Beatles Landed Laughing in New York, Black Moss Press, 1995
Tongues of the Children, Black Moss Press, 1996 (winner of the Tilden Award for poetry, 1995)
Never Hand Me Anything if I Am Walking or Standing, Black Moss Press, 1997
Soldier’s Heart, Black Moss Press, 1998
Stella’s Journey, Black Moss Press, 1999*C
           (shortlisted for the 1999-2000 People’s Poetry Award)
*Don’t Be So Persnickety: the Runaway Sneezing poems, songs and riddles of John B. Lee,
            Black Moss Press, 2000
The Half-Way Tree: Selected Poems and New, Black Moss Press, 2001
In the Terrible Weather of Guns, Mansfield Press, 2002
Totally Unused Heart, Black Moss Press, 2003
The Hockey Player Sonnets: Overtime edition, Penumbra Press, 2003
       * compulsory text for Canadian Studies, Simon Fraser University
Poems for the Pornographer’s Daughter, Black Moss Press, 2005
Godspeed, Black Moss press, 2006

*Don’t Be So Persnickety is a book of Children’s poems
 

Chapbooks and flyers:


Broken Glass, League of Canadian Poets, 1983 (poetry flyer)
To Kill a White Dog, Brick Books, 1982 (chapbook)
The Day Jane Fonda Came to Guelph, Plowman Press, 1989 (chapbook)
In a Language with No Word for Horses, Above/ground press, 1997
The Echo of Your Words Has Reached Me, Mekler and Deahl, 1998 (chapbook)
An Almost Silent Drumming, Cranberry Tree Press, 2001
Though Their Joined Hearts Drummed Like Larks, Passion Among the Cacti Press, 2004
Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green, Leaf Press, 2004
The Bright Red Apples of the Dead, Pooka Press, 2004
How Beautiful We Are, Black Moss Press, 2006
But Where Were the Horses of Evening, Serengeti, 2007
 


Non-Fiction:


What’s In a Name?, Dogwood Press, 1994, 1998 (essay in chapbook form)
Head Heart Hands Health: A History of 4-H in Ontario, Comri Productions, 1995 (history)
In the Terrible Weather of Guns, 2000 Family History News

*Building Bicycles in the Dark: a practical guide to writing, Black Moss Press, 2001
The Farm on the Hill He Calls Home, Black Moss Press, 2004
*Left Hand Horses: meditations on influence and the imagination, Black Moss Press, 2007


*Building Bicycles in the Dark and Left Hand Horses are both works of creative non-fiction written for writers, aspiring writers and for teachers of the craft of writing

 
 
Forthcoming:
Coming Home: Windsor Review guest editor
Nous Sommes Ici: Ten Writers In Bourgogne (editor) Mosaic Press, 2008
The Place That We Keep After Leaving, Black Moss Press, 2008
Under the Weight of Heaven: writing from Abbey of Gethsemani (editor) Black Moss Press, 2008

Work-in-progress:
Being Human, poetry
The Widow’s Land, poetry The Radiant Arrival, poetry
Thirteen Turtles, poetry
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

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