Robert Priest
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Robert Priest (born 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's author.
The author of fourteen books of poetry, he won the Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award for The Mad Hand (1988).
In his alias as Dr. Poetry he wrote and performed thirteen segments for CBC radio's spoken-word show Wordbeat.
As a songwriter, he co-wrote the number one hit, "Song Instead of a Kiss" for Alannah Myles.
His aphorisms have already appeared in The Farmer's Almanac and Colombo's Canadian Quotations.
He is the author of several plays, including The Coming, which was co-written with Leon Rooke. Priest's musical play Minibugs and Microchips received a $25,000 Chalmer's Award.
His novel, Knights of the Endless Day (1993) received an Our Choice Award from the Canadian Children's Book Centre.
Both of his books of poems for children, Daysongs Nightsongs and The Secret Invasion of Bananas and Other Poems (2002) are on the CBC's recommended reading list.
Priest lives in Toronto, Ontario and is a journalist for that city's weekly Now.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- The Visible Man (1980)
- Sadness of Spacemen (1980)
- The Man Who Broke Out of the Letter X (1984)
- The Three Roberts on Childhood (1984; Robert Sward and Robert Zend) ISBN 0920259073
- The Short Hockey Career of Amazing Jany (1986)
- The Ruby Hat (1987)
- The Mad Hand (1988)
- Scream Blue Living (1992) ISBN 0920544924
- Knights of the Endless Day (1993)
- A Terrible Case of the Stars (1994)
- Resurrection in the Cartoon (1997) ISBN 1550223135
- Time Release Poems (1997)
- The Secret Invasion of Bananas and Other Poems (2002) ISBN 1896860974
- Blue Pyramids:New and Selected Poems (2002) ISBN 1550225545
- How to Swallow a Pig (2004) ISBN 1550226495
