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Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green a chapbook by John B. Lee an artist friend said this morning © John B. Lee |
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John
B. Lee: "Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green" was inspired
by a conversation I had with my friend, John B. Lee has won over 60 prestigious international honours
including being the only two-time winner of the People's Poetry Award,
and he has been a two-time recipient of The Canadian Literary Award
for poetry (CBC radio features). Most recently he received the Eric
Hill Award of Excellence in poetry from Qwerty magazine and
the University of New Brunswick. He has had three award-winning
chapbooks published to date including In a Language with no Word
for Horses, (above/ground press); The Echo of Your Words Has
Reached Me, (Mekler and Deahl); and An Almost Silent Drumming,
(Cranberry Tree Press), a series of poems written while he was a guest
of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and which received
letters of praise from both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. John B. Lee has just been appointed Poet Laureate of the City of Brantford,Ontario. Congratulations! His Leaf chapbook Thirty-three Thousand Shades of Green was shortlisted for the Acorn-Plantos Award in 2005. |
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