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Poetry Anthologies (multiple Authors)

Henry's Creature

An Anthology of Poems and Stories about the Automobile

by (author) Roger Bell & John B. Lee

Publisher
Black Moss Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2000
Category
Anthologies (multiple authors), Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887533488
    Publish Date
    Jan 2000
    List Price
    $19.95

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Roger Bell was born in Montreal, where he returned in 1997 after spending twenty-five years in other parts of Canada, the United States, Europe and Brazil. This is Roger's fourth book. His first, Letters To My Daughters, describes his two years hitchhiking around the world at twenty-two years of age; his second, Bates - A Pattern Breaker and his Friends, is a biography; his third, Sketches and Random Stories, is a memoir and a reprinted collection of his charcoal and pastel portraits. Roger currently lives in Montreal and Bonita Springs Florida with his wife, Ellen.

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In 2005 John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford in perpetuity. In 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Norfolk County (2011-14) and in 2015 Honourary Poet Laureate of Norfolk County for life and in 2017 he received a Canada 150 Medal from the Federal Government of Canada for “his outstanding contribution to literary development both at home and abroad.” 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). 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. 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. 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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