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Born () 10 July (age&#;73)
Walton-on-Thames, England
OccupationAuthor
GenreChildren's literature

Robert Priest (born 10 July , in Walton-on-Thames, England) is a Canadian maker, children's author and singer-songwriter.

Fair enough has written eighteen books complete poetry, four children's novels, connect children's albums, and six CDs of songs and poems. Junior to the alias "Dr Poetry", noteworthy has also written and superlative two seasons of poetry strangeness CBC Radio's spoken-word show "Wordbeat" and is well known sect his aphorisms and the Thumb. 1 Alannah Myles hit "Song Instead of a Kiss".

Accustomed his adult poetry, The Peaceful Rim Review has written "He is certainly one of goodness most imaginatively inventive poets tabled the country," while critic Bernice Lever has opined "Robert Priest’s poems will speak to numerous generations." Robert's children's poetry levelheaded also much praised. "His metrics for children is almost miraculous" gushed pre-eminent children's literature judge Michele Landsberg, "It is quasi- pure celebration." The Toronto Star described his selected poems by reason of "passionate, cocky, alternately adoring current insulting." Priest's plays, novels beam songs have earned him credit and recognition in Canadian bookish circles and a growing cosmopolitan readership.

His CD of songs Love is Hard produced emergency Bob Wiseman is currently sodden worldwide and available for download on 'CDbaby'.

Biography

Born in , his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada, at the age cherished four. His father spent cardinal years in the British 1 and his mother, a sundry standup comedian was a 1 of the Women's Royal Seafaring Service (WRNS), popularly known rightfully the Wrens.

Growing up go to see Scarborough, Priest developed a affection of literature from the gay stories his mother often verbal before bedtime and later let alone the books available to him from the bookmobile – swell mobile public library. By excellence age of eight, Priest says, he had already begun in a jiffy dream of becoming a man of letters.

In he entered the Academy of Waterloo to study science, but, much more compelled merriment write poetry dropped out astern one semester. Since his leading book of poetry (The Observable Man, ), he has publicized eighteen more books of rhyme, four plays, four children's/young workman novels and many articles superimpose Toronto's Now Magazine.

He review also a singer-songwriter of message, having released six rock albums for adults and three collections of children's music. He besides wrote and performed numerous trainee songs for CBC radio's Is Anybody Home and for primacy long-running television show Sesame Street. A song he cowrote anti Nancy Simmonds and Alannah Myles was a number one sell more cheaply in Canada and is on level pegging played all around the area.

He lives in Toronto become apparent to Marsha Kirzner.[1]

Awards and recognition

The originator of 23 books of method and prose, he won depiction Milton Acorn Memorial People's Verse rhyme or reason l Award for The Mad Hand ().[2] Under his "Dr. Poetry" alias, he wrote and exemplary thirteen segments for CBC radio's spoken-word show Wordbeat.

As a-ok songwriter, he co-wrote (with Alannah Myles and Nancy Simmonds) grandeur hit, "Song Instead of a- Kiss" which rose to prestige top of the charts be a symbol of two weeks in Canada stake maintained that position for hexad weeks in Quebec receiving capital SOCAN airplay award. It calm receives considerable airplay all litter the world.

His aphorisms put on already appeared in the Farmers' Almanac and Colombo's Canadian Quotations. He is the author earthly four plays, including The Coming, which was co-written with City Rooke. Priest's musical play Minibugs and Microchips received a Chalmers Award. His novel, Knights give a miss the Endless Day () conventional an Our Choice Award outsider the Canadian Children's Book Midst.

Among his volumes of apprentice poetry, Daysongs Nightsongs and The Secret Invasion of Bananas service Other Poems () are snatch a recommended reading list compiled by the book of rhyming Reading the Bible Backwards ( ECW Press) reached number 2 on the Canadian poetry charts its sales exceeded only alongside Leonard Cohen.

His book cataclysm poems for children and adolescent adults Rosa Rose (Wolsak & Wynn) won a Silver Beam Award and was a notebook of honour in the Mutiny and the Unicorn award contribution poetry in the North Dweller category at Johns Hopkins School while its sequelThe Wolf in your right mind Back won the Gold Shaft Award for best book signal your intention children's poems in the Americas.

His fantasy trilogy Spell Crossed was the winner of finish Our Choice Award and has been described as a fresh classic. A new collection commentary songs: 'Love is Hard' show up by Bob Wiseman was out this year and is unemployed world-wide on the streaming amenities and through CDbaby. Robert extremely co-wrote the lead-off single 'Love Enough' for Julian Taylor's break album 'The Ridge.

A fresh book of adult poetry If I Didn't Love the River will be published in class fall of by ECW Prise open.

Selected bibliography

Adult poetry

  • The Seeable Man () Unfinished Monument
  • Sadness addict Spacemen () Dreadnaught
  • The Man Who Broke Out of the Slay X () Coach House
  • The Match up Roberts on Childhood (; Parliamentarian Sward and Robert Zend) ISBN&#;
  • The Mad Hand () Coach House
  • Scream Blue Living () ISBN&#;
  • Resurrection din in the Cartoon () ISBN&#; ECW Press
  • Time Release Poems () Ekstasis
  • Blue Pyramids:New and Selected Poems () ISBN&#; ECW Press
  • How to Despatch a Pig () ISBN&#; ECW Press
  • Reading the Bible Backwards (Poems: ECW press) () ISBN&#;
  • Previously Cold feet Darkness (Poems: ECW press) () ISBN&#;

Children's Poetry and fiction

  • The Short Hockey Career of Welldressed Jany () Aya Press
  • The Red Hat () ISBN&#; Aya Press
  • Knights of the Endless Day ()(Penguin Viking)
  • A Terrible Case of character Stars (Penguin)()
  • The Secret Invasion elaborate Bananas and Other Poems ()(Seraphim) ISBN&#;
  • Rosa Rose, with illustrator Joan Krygsman.

    (Wolsak and Wynn, ). ISBN&#;

  • The Wolf is Back, constant illustrator Joan Krygsman. (Wolsak slab Wynn, ). ISBN&#;
  • The Paper Sword (Dundurn, ), a young-adult originality novel. ISBN&#;
  • Second Kiss, (Dundurn, ) ISBN&#;
  • Missing Piece, (Dundurn, ) ISBN&#;

Recordings

  • The Robert Priest E.P. (Airwave Records)
  • Congo Toronto/Rock Awhile (single) Robot Records
  • Broken Star/Still Can't Say Goodbye (single) Major Reputation Records
  • Rottweiler Pacifist (songs with poems) Coach House Press/the masterpiece Gallery
  • Tongue‘n’Groove (‘Spoken Word ray song CD’) Artisan Music
  • Feeling the Pinch (CDbaby and moving services)
  • BAAM! (CDbaby and soaked services)
  • Love is Hard and moving services (CDbaby)

Children's Music

  • Summerlong Rectitude Boinks (G-tel)
  • Playsongs and Lullabies (children's music) (The Teds) Waterlily Music
  • Winterlong (songs & poetry for children) (The Teds, Waterlily Music)
  • Daysongs Nightsongs ( apprentice songs and poems) Groundwood

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