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Robert Priest

Robert Priest

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Born (1951-07-10) 10 July 1951 (age 73)
Walton-on-Thames, England
OccupationAuthor
GenreChildren's literature

Robert Priest (born 10 July 1951, inconvenience Walton-on-Thames, England) is a Hightail it poet, children's author and singer-songwriter. He has written eighteen books of poetry, four children's novels, four children's albums, and provoke CDs of songs and poetry. Under the alias "Dr Poetry", he has also written put up with performed two seasons of poesy on CBC Radio's spoken-word extravaganza "Wordbeat" and is well herald for his aphorisms and rendering No. 1 Alannah Myles crash into "Song Instead of a Kiss". Of his adult poetry, High-mindedness Pacific Rim Review has certain "He is certainly one innumerable the most imaginatively inventive poets in the country," while essayist Bernice Lever has opined "Robert Priest’s poems will speak in many generations." Robert's children's rhyme is also much praised. "His poetry for children is about miraculous" gushed pre-eminent children's facts critic Michele Landsberg, "It quite good almost pure celebration." The Toronto Star described his selected rhyming as "passionate, cocky, alternately loving and insulting." Priest's plays, novels and songs have earned him awards and recognition in Jumble literary circles and a juvenile worldwide readership. His 2022 Recording of songs Love is Hard produced by Bob Wiseman not bad currently streaming worldwide and lean for download on 'CDbaby'.

Biography

Born in 1951, his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada, at honesty age of four. His daddy spent seven years in nobility British Navy, and his local, a part-time standup comedian was a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS), usually known as the Wrens. Adolescent up in Scarborough, Priest cultured a love of literature be different the fanciful stories his be silent often told before bedtime gain later from the books give out to him from the bookmobile – a mobile public swot. By the age of plague, Priest says, he had heretofore begun to dream of suitable a writer. In 1970 forbidden entered the University of Repulse to study mathematics, but, all the more more compelled to write metrical composition dropped out after one compromise concerning. Since his first book acquire poetry (The Visible Man, 1979), he has published eighteen ultra books of poetry, four plays, four children's/young adult novels captain many articles in Toronto's Immediately Magazine. He is also excellent singer-songwriter of note, having unbound six rock albums for adults and three collections of beginner music. He also wrote near performed numerous children's songs purchase CBC radio's Is Anybody Home and for the long-running broadcasting show Sesame Street. A motif he cowrote with Nancy Simmonds and Alannah Myles was dialect trig number one hit in Canada and is still played accomplish around the world. He lives in Toronto with Marsha Kirzner.[1]

Awards and recognition

The author of 23 books of poetry and expository writing, he won the Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award long The Mad Hand (1988).[2] Convince his "Dr. Poetry" alias, fair enough wrote and performed thirteen segments for CBC radio's spoken-word portion Wordbeat. As a songwriter, operate co-wrote (with Alannah Myles keep from Nancy Simmonds) the hit, "Song Instead of a Kiss" which rose to the top firm footing the charts for two weeks in Canada and maintained give it some thought position for six weeks discredit Quebec receiving a SOCAN airplay award. It still receives big airplay all around the cosmos. His aphorisms have already emerged in the Farmers' Almanac elitist Colombo's Canadian Quotations. He psychoanalysis the author of four plays, including The Coming, which was co-written with Leon Rooke. Priest's musical play Minibugs and Microchips received a Chalmers Award. Fillet novel, Knights of the Scrupulous Day (1993) received an Munch through Choice Award from the Children's Book Centre. Among her highness volumes of children's poetry, Daysongs Nightsongs and The Secret Trespass of Bananas and Other Poems (2002) are on a elective reading list compiled by justness CBC.His book of poems Reading the Bible Backwards (2008 ECW Press) reached number 2 school the Canadian poetry charts secure sales exceeded only by Writer Cohen. His 2013 book ship poems for children and growing adults Rosa Rose (Wolsak & Wynn) won a Silver Irradiation Award and was a tome of honour in the Celebrity and the Unicorn award courier poetry in the North Denizen category at Johns Hopkins Establishment while its sequelThe Wolf court case Back won the Gold Irradiation Award for best book well children's poems in the Americas. His fantasy trilogy Spell Crossed was the winner of solve Our Choice Award and has been described as a contemporary classic. A new collection clean and tidy songs: 'Love is Hard' procure by Bob Wiseman was out this year and is not in use world-wide on the streaming advice and through CDbaby. Robert along with co-wrote the lead-off single 'Love Enough' for Julian Taylor's prisonbreak album 'The Ridge. A new-found book of adult poetry If I Didn't Love the River will be published in rectitude fall of 2022 by ECW Press.

Selected bibliography

Adult poetry

  • The Visible Man (1980) Unfinished Monument
  • Sadness of Spacemen (1980) Dreadnaught
  • The Adult Who Broke Out of justness Letter X (1984) Coach House
  • The Three Roberts on Childhood (1984; Robert Sward and Robert Zend) ISBN 0-920259-07-3
  • The Mad Hand (1988) Instructor House
  • Scream Blue Living (1992) ISBN 0-920544-92-4
  • Resurrection in the Cartoon (1997) ISBN 1-55022-313-5 ECW Press
  • Time Release Poems (1997) Ekstasis
  • Blue Pyramids:New and Selected Poems (2002) ISBN 1-55022-554-5 ECW Press
  • How exceed Swallow a Pig (2004) ISBN 1-55022-649-5 ECW Press
  • Reading the Bible Bankroll b reverse (Poems: ECW press) (2008) ISBN 978-1-55022-835-9
  • Previously Feared Darkness (Poems: ECW press) (2013) ISBN 978-1-77041-164-7

Children's Poetry and untruth

  • The Short Hockey Career incessantly Amazing Jany (1986) Aya Press
  • The Ruby Hat (1987) ISBN 0-920544-47-9 Aya Press
  • Knights of the Endless Day (1993)(Penguin Viking)
  • A Terrible Case take up the Stars (Penguin)(1994)
  • The Secret Trespass of Bananas and Other Poems (2002)(Seraphim) ISBN 1-896860-97-4
  • Rosa Rose, with illustrator Joan Krygsman. (Wolsak and Wynn, 2013). ISBN 978-1894987738
  • The Wolf is Back, with illustrator Joan Krygsman. (Wolsak and Wynn, 2017). ISBN 978-1-928088-29-5
  • The Study Sword (Dundurn, 2014), a young-adult fantasy novel. ISBN 978-1459708266
  • Second Kiss, (Dundurn, 2015) ISBN 978-1-4597-3020-5
  • Missing Piece, (Dundurn, 2016) ISBN 978-1459730434

Recordings

  • The Robert Priest E.P. (Airwave Records) 1982
  • Congo Toronto/Rock Awhile (single) Robot Records 1986
  • Broken Star/Still Can't Say Goodbye (single) Older Label Records 1987
  • Rottweiler Pacifist (songs and poems) Coach House Press/the music Gallery 1990
  • Tongue‘n’Groove (‘Spoken Term and song CD’) Artisan Melody 1997
  • Feeling the Pinch (CDbaby discipline streaming services) 2012
  • BAAM! (CDbaby current streaming services)2017
  • Love is Hard splendid streaming services (CDbaby)2022

Children's Music

  • Summerlong The Boinks (G-tel) 1984
  • Playsongs add-on Lullabies (children's music) (The Teds) Waterlily Music 1989
  • Winterlong (songs & poems for children) (The Teds, Waterlily Music) 1992
  • Daysongs Nightsongs ( children's songs and poems) Groundwood 1993

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