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John B. Lee

This is How We See the World

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This is How We See the World includes eighteen previously published chapbook written over the course of thirty years by multi-award winning poet John B. Lee. This is How We See the World beginning with work written by John B. Lee when he was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate at University of Western Ontario being championed by Canadian literary luminaries Margaret Avison, Stan Dragland and Don McKay. This noteworthy series of eighteen chapbooks published between the covers of a single volume culminates in recent award-winning work that confirms those early supporters' faith in Lee's promise as a writer to be reckoned with. For his part, poet… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-927725-50-4
  • EAN: 9781927725504
  • Produktnummer: 24365324
  • Verlag: Hidden Brook Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 494 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.8 cm 752 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 752

Über den Autor


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 and The Ontario Poetry Society. 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 Souwesto Award for his contribution to literature in his home region of southwestern Ontario and he was named winner of the inaugural Black Moss Press Souwesto Award for his contribution to the ethos of writing in Southwestern Ontario. In 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Norfolk County (2011-14) and in 2015 Honourary Poet Laureate of Norfolk County for life. A recipient of over eighty prestigious international awards for his writing he is winner of the $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, an award he won again in 2012. He has well-over seventy 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. He co-edited a special issue of Windsor Review-Alice Munro: A Souwesto Celebration published in the fall of 2014. His work has appeared internationally in over 500 publications, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Korean 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 received letters of praise from Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Australian Poet, Les Murray, and Senator Romeo Dallaire. He has been called the greatest living poet in English, by poet George Whipple, he lives in Port Dover, Ontario where he works as a full time author.

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