Doing It!
Writing the Perfect Poem
- Publisher
- Black Moss Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2015
- Category
- Poetry
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887535215
- Publish Date
- Feb 2015
- List Price
- $16
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Description
Doing It! How to Write the Perfect Poem, is a series of linked stories on the process of writing poetry and understanding it from within. Lee writes from his own experiences with thewriting life where the changes in the season evolve into stanzas, and images arise from daily work, play and meditating.
About the author
Contributor Notes
In 2005 John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford in perpetuity and in 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Norfolk County. A recipient of over sixty prestigious international awards for his writing he is winner of the $10,000 CBC Literary Award for Poetr and the only two-time recipient of the People's Poetry Award. He has published over 50 books and is the editor of eleven anthologies. His work has appeared in over 500 publications and has been translated into four languages.He lives with his wife Cathy in Port Dover, Ontario where works full-time as an author.