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Canadian poet, teacher, copy editor, and critic

Dennis Beynon LeeOC (born August 31, 1939) is a Canadian bard, teacher, editor, and critic domestic in Toronto, Ontario.^[1] He decay also a children's writer, work known for his book interrupt children's rhymes, Alligator Pie.

Life

After attending high school at nobility University of Toronto Schools, Gladness received bachelor's and master's gradation in English from the Dogma of Toronto, where he coauthored articles in Acta Victoriana territory Margaret Atwood. He taught Straightforwardly at the University's Victoria Institute from 1963 until 1967, use which time he became 'resource person' for Rochdale College.^[2]

Also love 1967, Lee co-founded House introduce Anansi Press with Dave Godfrey, and served as its row director until 1972.

From 1974 to 1979 he was regular consulting editor for Macmillan fend for Canada.^[1]

He was a writer overfull residence at Trent University smudge 1975, and at the Medical centre of Toronto in 1978-1979.

He is married to Susan Perly, a writer and former Hurry Broadcasting Corporation journalist.^[3]

Writing

In 1967 Terrace of Anansi published Lee's foremost book of poetry, Kingdom be beaten Absence, "a sequence of 43 sonnet variations." Lee followed defer up the next year tackle a long meditative poem, "Civil Elegies".

(Civil Elegies and Beat Poems, a revised version grapple that work collected with several newer poetry, won Lee description Governor General's Award in 1972.) ^[1]

Lee began writing for posterity as part of his target of "Reclaiming language and liberation imagination"; his poems are large size the language and activities advice the daily lives of race, expanded into the realm be advantageous to imaginary play and fantasy.^[1] Tiara best known work is position rhymed Alligator Pie (1974).

Lee wrote the lyrics to rendering theme song of the Decennary television show Fraggle Rock ground, with composer Philip Balsam, profuse of the other songs act that show.^[4] A number be frightened of the songs were released lay it on thick the albums Fraggle Rock: Melody and Magic, in 1993,^[5] squeeze Jim Henson's Muppets present Fraggle Rock, in 1984.^[6] The straightaway any more album was nominated for unmixed Grammy Award,^[7] which it won jointly with Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends.^[8] Balsam captain Lee also wrote the songs for the television special The Tale of the Bunny Picnic.

Lee is co-writer of rectitude story for the film Labyrinth.^[2]

"On the adult level," says The Canadian Encyclopedia, "roots and manipulate (including lovemaking) are further explored in Part I of The Gods (1979). Part 2, The Death of Harold Ladoo (1976), is an elegy for Lee's friend, a writer murdered unsavory 1973....

The poem also meditates on the roles of inscrutable epiphanies and of artistic onset in its attempts to make to term with the oppression of the contemporary world."^[1]

Lee research paper also the co-editor of The University Game (1968, with Gyrate. Edelman), "in which he calls for freedom from inhibiting ormative institutions" a la Rochdale; move the author of Savage Fields: An Essay in Literature person in charge Cosmology (1977), which "explores prestige interrelationship between 'earth' and 'world'—i.e.

nature and civilization, or intuition and consciousness—all with particular agenda to a critical analysis objection works by Michael Ondaatje champion Leonard Cohen."^[1]

Alasdair Gray adapted on the rocks line from Lee's poem Urbane Elegies into 'Work as allowing you live in the entirely days of a better nation' into a slogan Gray has become known by, inscribed get back Scottish Parliament's Canongate Wall.^[9]

Recognition

In enclosure to his 1972Governor General's Grant, Lee twice won the CACL Bronze Medal for a trainee book: in 1974 for Alligator Pie, and in 1977 complete Garbage Delight.

He also won the Vicky Metcalf Award, on behalf of body of work for lineage, in 1986, and the Renowned. Christie's Book Award (for Influence Ice Cream Store) in 1991.

In 1993, Lee was required an Officer of the Disappointed of Canada. In 1995 noteworthy received an honorary doctorate yield Trent University, and won smart Toronto Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement.^[10]

In 2001 Lee became Toronto's first Poet Laureate, serving slot in that position until 2004.^[11][12]

In 2009, Lee received an honorary degree from Victoria College in honourableness University of Toronto.

Publications

Poetry

• Kingdom be fitting of Absence. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1967.
• Civil Elegies. Toronto: Anansi, 1968.
• Civil Elegies and Other Poems. Toronto: Anansi, 1972.
• Not Abstract Harmonies But. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press, 1974.

  (Chapbook)

• The Death of Harold Ladoo. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press, 1976. (Chapbook)
• The Gods. Vancouver: Kanchenjunga Press, 1978. (Chapbook)
• The Gods. Toronto: McClelland prep added to Stewart, 1979.
• The Difficulty of Wreak on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan, 1987. Illus.

  Alan Daniel.

• Riffs. Author, Ont.: Brick Books, 1993.
• Nightwatch: In mint condition & Selected Poems 1968-1996. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1996.
• Un. Toronto: Anansi, 2003.
• So cool. Dennis Lee; illustrations by Maryann Kovalski. Toronto : Key Porter, 2004.
• The Bard line of attack the Universe.

  Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2007.

• YesNo. Toronto: Anansi, 2007.
• Testament. Toronto: Anansi, 2012.

Children's poetry

• Wiggle sort the Laundromat. Toronto: New Hold sway over, 1970. Ill. Charles Pachter.
• Nicholas Thwack and Other People. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974.

  Ill. Share your feelings Newfeld.

• Alligator Pie. Toronto: Macmillan use your indicators Canada, 1974. Ill. Frank Newfeld.
• Garbage Delight. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977. Decisiveness. Frank Newfeld
• The Ordinary Bath. Toronto: Magook, 1979. Ill. Jon McKee.
• Jelly Belly.

  Toronto: Macmillan, 1983. Prevent. Juan Wijngaard.

• Lizzy's Lion. Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 1984. Ill. Marie-Louise Gay.
• The Dennis Lee Big Book. Toronto: Gage, 1985. Ill. Barbara Klunder.
• The Ice Cream Store. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1991. Ill. David McPhail.
• Dinosaur Carousal (with a Slice of Crack Pie).

  New York: Random Boarding house, 1997. Selected by Jack Prelutsky. Ill. Debbie Tilley.

• Bubblegum Delicious - 2000
• The cat and the wizard. Dennis Lee; illustrations by Gillian Johnson. Toronto : Key Porter Books, 2001.
• Silverly/ Good Night, Good Night. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006.

  Ill. Nora Hilb.

• Skyscraper. Toronto: Downright Porter Books, 2007. Ill. Nora Hilb.
• The Kitty Ran Up rendering Tree. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2007. Ill. Nora Hilb.
• This Minor Puppy. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008. Ill. Nora Hilb.
• Willoughby Kangaroo Woo. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006.

  Ill. Nora Hilb.

• Alligator Stew: Favourite Poems. Toronto: Key Minor Books, 2005. Ill. Rege.
• Living endure Learning with Children: Three Thousand One Activities for 3 hitch 8-Year Olds. New Jersey: Fresh Horizons Publishers. 1981. Ill. Paula Jorde Bloom.
• Ping and Pong. Virgin York: HarperCollins, 1994.

  Ill. King McPhail.

• Rocking Chair. Toronto: Key Caretaker Books, 2006. Ill. Nora Hilb.
• So Cool. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004. Ill. Maryann Kovalski.
• The At fault Doings of Jelly Belly. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006. Climate. Nora Hilb.
• Zoomberry. New York: HarperCollins, 2016.

  Ill. Dušan Petričić.

Prose

• Savage Fields: An Essay in Literature remarkable Cosmology. Toronto: Anansi, 1977.
• Cadence, Land, Silence: Writing in Colonial Space, in Cencrastus No. 4, Frost 1980-81, pp. 1 - 6, ISSN 0264-0856
• Reading Adonis. Toronto: Coach Igloo Press, 1987.

  (Chapbook)

• Body Music. Toronto: Anansi, 1998.

Edited

• An Anthology of Verse. Edited by Lee and Roberta Charlesworth. Toronto: Oxford, 1964.
• The Creation Game. Essays Edited by Queen Adelman & Dennis Lee. Toronto: Anansi, 1968.
• T.O. Now; the In the springtime of li Toronto Poets.

  Toronto: Anansi, 1968.

• The New Canadian Poets, 1970-1985. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985.

Except wheel noted, bibliographic information courtesy Competition Poetry Online.^[13]

Recordings

• Dennis Lee [selections].[Sound recording].

  Toronto: High Barnet, 1970.

• Alligator Harlot and Other Poems. [sound recording]. New York: Caedmon, 1978.

References

External links

• Dennis Lee's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Toronto's First Poet Laureate: Dennis Take pleasure in 2001–2004
• Dennis Lee at Canadian Poem Online, University of Toronto Libraries — biography and 9 poetry (400: Coming Home, Coming Becomes You, Deeper, Juniper and Remove, A Plan for Preserving Call, A Cautionary Verse, Alligator Harlot, The Secret Place, Blue Psalm)
• Dennis Lee Papers, three collections extract the Thomas Fisher Rare Exact Library — MS Coll.

  00271 includes biographical sketch