Bio:
• Son of a Navy officer
• Emigrated to Canada at
the age of 4
• Mothers bedtime stories
• Dropped out of University
of Waterloo
• First Publication: ‘The
Visible Man’ 1979
•
Versatile Artist
Where He’s Been:
• Awards
• Alias- Dr. Poetry
• Various Job Placements
• University
• Festival Performances
More Recognitions:
• Now Magazine
• Colombo’s Canadian Quotations
• The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature:
• Today’s Parent Magazine
• Eye Magazine
• Michelle
Landsberg
How He Got His Start:
• Poetic EP 1981
• Congo Toronto 1986
• Rotweiller Pacifist in1988
• Tongue ‘n’ Groove 1998
Robert Priest’s Thinking:
• Robert Priest’s Classes
• Robert Priest Quote
Robert Priest’s Works:
Books
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Poems In Anthologies
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Music
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Plays
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Awards and Honours
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Day Songs, Night Songs. Pictures by Keith Lee. Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993. (children's poetry)
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New Voices: A Celebration of Canadian Poetry. Ed. Clifton Whiten. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1984
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The Robert Priest E.P. Airwave Records, 1982. (songs)
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Minibugs & Microchips (1998)
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the 1962 Most Improved Trumpeter, Scarborough Firefighter's Drum and Bugle Corp.
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A Terrible Case of the Stars. Illustrations by Don Gauthier. Toronto: Penguin, 1994. (children's poetry)
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The Three Roberts. By Robert Priest, Robert Sward, Robert Zend. 3 vols. Toronto: HMS Press, Dreadnaught Press, Moonstone Press, 1984-85.
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Summerlong. G-tel Records, 1982. (children's music)
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The Coming (1991)
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the 1994 Special Choice Award, Children's Book Centre, for Knights of the Endless Day.
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Time Release Poems. Victoria, B.C.: Ekstasis Editions, 1997. (collected aphorisms)
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The New Canadian Poets, 1970-1985. Edited by Dennis Lee. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1985.
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Congo Toronto. Robot Records, 1986. (song poem)
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Knights of the Endless Day (January 1992)
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the 1996 Socan Airplay Award for "Song Instead of a Kiss."
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Resurrection in the Cartoon. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997.
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The Meadow Mouse Treasury: Stories, Poems, Pictures from Canada's Finest Authors and Illustrators. Vancouver: Groundwood Books, 1995.
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Broken Star. Major Label Records, 1987. (song poem)
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Sweet & Sour Angel Wings (1994) (based on Robert Priest’s poetry)
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the 1998 Chalmers Canadian Play Award for Young Audiences for Minibugs and Microchips.
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Blue pyramids : new and selected poems. Toronto: ECW Press, 2002.
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Word Up: Spoken Word Poetry in Print. Edited by Jill Battson and Ken Norris. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1995.
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Playsongs and Lullabies by The Teds. Waterlily Music, 1989. (children's music)
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the 1989/1990 Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award for The Mad Hand.
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How to swallow a pig. Toronto: MisFit, 2004
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Periodicals include: ARC, Exile, In 2 Print, Our Times.
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Rottweiler Pacifist. Toronto: Coach House Press / Music Gallery, 1990. (audiotape)
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Reading the Bible backwards. Toronto: ECW Press, 2008.
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Winterlong by The Teds. Waterlily Music, 1992. (songs and poems for children)
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The Secret Invasion of Bananas (Collected Children's Poems). (Cherubim Press, Victoria)
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Tongue ‘n’ Groove. Artisan Music, 1997. (spoken word CD)
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Scream Blue Living: New and Selected Poems. (Mercury Press, 1992).
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Instead of a Kiss, co-written with rock diva Alannah Myles,
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Knights of the Endless Day. (Viking, 1993; Puffin Books, 1994).
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Lullabies and Playsongs. (Waterlily Music).
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The Ballad of the Blue Bonnet. (Groundwood Books, 1994).
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Alannah Myles: Song Instead Of A Kiss
Song instead
of a kiss
Baby this is a
song instead of a kiss
For all of you
who ache
Who long for
nights like this
Song instead
of a touch
Darlin', this
is a song instead of a touch
To all of you
who wait so long
And need so
much
It is for
those who like to cling
It is to
those, to those I sing
Here is a song
instead of a clutch
Instead of a
moon
Instead of a
soothing touch in the afternoon
It is for
those who like to cling
It is to
those, to those I sing
Here is a song
instead of a clutch
Instead of a
moon
Instead of a
soothing touch in the afternoon
And Now You Know.
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