Reading the poet backwards: The poems and songs of Robert Priest
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Robert Priest is a Canadian poet, children’s author and singer–songwriter. He has written eighteen books of poetry, four children’s novels, four albums of children’s songs and has released six CDs of songs and poems. Under the alias ‘Dr Poetry’, he has also written and performed two seasons of poetry on CBC Radio’s spoken-word show Word Beat and is well known for his aphorisms and the No.1 Alannah Myles hit ‘Song Instead of a Kiss’ . The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature characterized Priest’s poetry as ‘full of flashes of insight. Imaginative in a strange way, he takes inordinate chances with logic, countering absurdity with absurdity, and expanding our sense of human emotional possibilities’. The following piece is a commentary on a selection of his poetry and song lyrics by Priest. It draws on several recorded conversations and e-mails with Mick Gowar and includes examples of Priest’s writing for both children and adults, although the main focus is on Priest’s poetry writing, songwriting and performing for children.
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