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Dennis Lee (natural August 31, 1939) is a Canadian children's writer and poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Lee has a bachelors & masters degree around English from either the University of Toronto. Spell the good poet, he is better known for his babies's writings. His better known operate is, perchance, Alligator Pie. He likewise wrote a lyrics to the theme song of the television indicate Fraggle Rock and, with Philip Balsam, many of the more songs for that indicate. Balsam & Lee as well wrote a songs for the tv favorite "The Tale of the Bunny Picnic". He is co-writer of the story for the film Labyrinth In 1986 he won the Vicky Metcalf Award. Inside 1972, his Civil Elegies and More Verse form won a Governor General's Award for poetry. Around 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Around 2001 Lee became Toronto's first Poet Laureate.

Within 1967 Lee was among those world health organization founded House of Anansi Press & was its first editor, holding that position for 5 years, & serving to build Anansi into a acclaimed publisher of poetry and literature that these are now. He is criticial of modern society & education for working to limit imagination, arguing that babies come rooted around the compound mentality.

When you took a late 1960s, Lee was included by having a Rochdale College experiment in Toronto.

An example of Lee's poetry

William Lyon Mackenzie King
Sat around the corner & played sustaining string,
Loved his mother such as anything,
William Lyon Mackenzie King.

Works
Kingdom of Absence - 1967 Wiggle to the Laundromat - 1970 Civil Elegies & More Poems - 1972 (winner of 1972 Governor General's Award for Poetry) Alligator Pie - 1974 Nicholas Knock & More Humans - 1974 Garbage Delight - 1977 Savage Fields - 1977 A Average Bath - 1979 A GOds - 1979 Jelly Stomach - 1983 ''Lizzy's Lion - 1984 A Difficulty of Residing in More Planets - 1987 A Ice Cream Store - 1991 Riffs - 1993 Immune system Music - 1998 Bubblegum Delicious - 2000 A Cat & a Wizard - 2001 UN'' - 2003

100 Canadian Poets
Biography, publications, and links.

My Little Dennis Lee Appreciation Page
Biography and several poems.

Writers Union of Canada
Selected publications and awards.

Canadian Poetry: Dennis Lee
Biography, poems, writing philosophy, published works, and awards.

Dennis Lee - Alligator Pie
News and appearances, biography, works, and links.

The Academy of American Poets: Dennis Lee
Profile and selected poems.






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