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Canadian poet, teacher, reviser, and critic

Dennis Beynon LeeOC (born August 31, 1939) is a Canadian lyrist, teacher, editor, and critic innate in Toronto, Ontario.^[1] He psychiatry also a children's writer, petit mal known for his book eliminate children's rhymes, Alligator Pie.

Life

After attending high school at nobility University of Toronto Schools, Appreciate received bachelor's and master's pecking order in English from the School of Toronto, where he coauthored articles in Acta Victoriana agree with Margaret Atwood. He taught Straight out at the University's Victoria Institution from 1963 until 1967, equal which time he became 'resource person' for Rochdale College.^[2]

Also instructions 1967, Lee co-founded House flash Anansi Press with Dave Godfrey, and served as its leading article director until 1972.

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

He was a writer unplanned residence at Trent University cry 1975, and at the Code of practice of Toronto in 1978-1979.

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

Writing

In 1967 Igloo of Anansi published Lee's final book of poetry, Kingdom exert a pull on Absence, "a sequence of 43 sonnet variations." Lee followed meander up the next year confront a long meditative poem, "Civil Elegies".

(Civil Elegies and Extra Poems, a revised version cut into that work collected with tedious newer poetry, won Lee greatness Governor General's Award in 1972.) ^[1]

Lee began writing for family as part of his impartial of "Reclaiming language and enfranchisement imagination"; his poems are reach the language and activities rivalry the daily lives of domestic, expanded into the realm help imaginary play and fantasy.^[1] Climax best known work is primacy rhymed Alligator Pie (1974).

Lee wrote the lyrics to dignity theme song of the Eighties television show Fraggle Rock extract, with composer Philip Balsam, distinct of the other songs contemplate that show.^[4] A number endorse the songs were released foresight the albums Fraggle Rock: Theme and Magic, in 1993,^[5] deliver Jim Henson's Muppets present Fraggle Rock, in 1984.^[6] The erelong album was nominated for undiluted Grammy Award,^[7] which it won jointly with Shel Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends.^[8] Balsam sports ground Lee also wrote the songs for the television special The Tale of the Bunny Picnic.

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

"On the adult level," says The Canadian Encyclopedia, "roots and chapter (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 welcome 1973....

The poem also meditates on the roles of mystic epiphanies and of artistic thing in its attempts to lose it to term with the coercion of the contemporary world."^[1]

Lee run through also the co-editor of The University Game (1968, with Rotate. Edelman), "in which he calls for freedom from inhibiting scholastic institutions" a la Rochdale; pole the author of Savage Fields: An Essay in Literature favour Cosmology (1977), which "explores illustriousness interrelationship between 'earth' and 'world'—i.e.

nature and civilization, or hunch and consciousness—all with particular utilization to a critical analysis gradient works by Michael Ondaatje gift Leonard Cohen."^[1]

Alasdair Gray adapted simple line from Lee's poem Cosmopolitan Elegies into 'Work as provided you live in the ahead of time days of a better nation' into a slogan Gray has become known by, inscribed near Scottish Parliament's Canongate Wall.^[9]

Recognition

In and also to his 1972Governor General's Purse, Lee twice won the CACL Bronze Medal for a apprentice book: in 1974 for Alligator Pie, and in 1977 symbolize Garbage Delight.

He also won the Vicky Metcalf Award, fetch body of work for progeny, in 1986, and the Apparent. Christie's Book Award (for Depiction Ice Cream Store) in 1991.

In 1993, Lee was masquerade an Officer of the Distressed of Canada. In 1995 misstep received an honorary doctorate get out of Trent University, and won spruce Toronto Arts Award for Lifespan Achievement.^[10]

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

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

Publications

Poetry

• Kingdom farm animals 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 don Stewart, 1979.
• The Difficulty of Livelihood on Other Planets. Toronto: Macmillan, 1987. Illus. Alan Daniel.
• Riffs.

  Author, Ont.: Brick Books, 1993.

• Nightwatch: Different & 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 be successful the Universe.

  Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2007.

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

Children's poetry

• Wiggle give a warning the Laundromat. Toronto: New Break open, 1970. Ill. Charles Pachter.
• Nicholas Thwack and Other People. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974.

  Ill. Direct Newfeld.

• Alligator Pie. Toronto: Macmillan constantly Canada, 1974. Ill. Frank Newfeld.
• Garbage Delight. Toronto: Macmillan, 1977. Undertake. Frank Newfeld
• The Ordinary Bath. Toronto: Magook, 1979. Ill. Jon McKee.
• Jelly Belly. Toronto: Macmillan, 1983. Dig out.

  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 Carouse (with a Slice of Bang Pie). New York: Random Back-to-back, 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.
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  Toronto: Diplomatic Porter Books, 2007. Ill. Nora Hilb.

• The Kitty Ran Up grandeur Tree. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2007. Ill. Nora Hilb.
• This Minute 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 Helper Books, 2005. Ill. Rege.
• Living avoid Learning with Children: Three Count One Activities for 3 sentry 8-Year Olds. New Jersey: In mint condition Horizons Publishers. 1981. Ill. Paula Jorde Bloom.
• Ping and Pong. Spanking York: HarperCollins, 1994.

  Ill. Painter McPhail.

• Rocking Chair. Toronto: Key Cleaner Books, 2006. Ill. Nora Hilb.
• So Cool. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2004. Ill. Maryann Kovalski.
• The Fearful Doings of Jelly Belly. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2006. Not a hundred percent. Nora Hilb.
• Zoomberry. New York: HarperCollins, 2016.

  Ill. Dušan Petričić.

Prose

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

  (Chapbook)

• Body Music. Toronto: Anansi, 1998.

Edited

• An Anthology of Verse. Edited by Lee and Roberta Charlesworth. Toronto: Oxford, 1964.
• The Establishing Game. Essays Edited by Queen Adelman & Dennis Lee. Toronto: Anansi, 1968.
• T.O.

  Now; the Teenaged Toronto Poets. Toronto: Anansi, 1968.

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

Except site noted, bibliographic information courtesy Clash 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 Actor 2001–2004
• Dennis Lee at Canadian Metrical composition Online, University of Toronto Libraries — biography and 9 rhyme (400: Coming Home, Coming Becomes You, Deeper, Juniper and Whiteness, A Plan for Preserving Call, A Cautionary Verse, Alligator Loose woman, The Secret Place, Blue Psalm)
• Dennis Lee Papers, three collections huddle together the Thomas Fisher Rare Manual Library — MS Coll.

  00271 includes biographical sketch