Literary reading by Canadian writer Robert Priest
Date and Time: Wednesday 1 September at 6.00pm
Venue: Geography Lecture Theatre 1, UWA
Profile:
Canadian writer Robert Priest will read from his work as part of an Australian tour supported by Foreign Affairs Canada / avec l'appui d'Affaires étrangères Canada Robert Priest is a poet, playwright, song-writer, and novelist. He has published seven children's books and seven books of poetry and prose for adults, including The Visible Man (1979), Sadness of Spacemen (1980), The Man Who Broke Out Of The Letter X (1984) and The Mad Hand (1988), recipient of the Milton Acorn Memorial People's Poetry Award. In 1992 Mercury Press released Scream Blue Living: New & Selected Poems. "This collection of poems beautifully captures the rainbow of emotions that comprise the human spirit... intoxicatingly lovely!" (Now Magazine). In 1998 ECW Press published Resurrection in the Cartoon, while Ekstasis Press gathered many of Priest's aphorisms in the volume The Time Release Poems. Priest's poems and prose poems have been included in numerous anthologies and magazines both in Canada and abroad. Robert is also the author of three plays including Minibugs & Microchips which was the winner of a 1998 Chalmer's Award in the Theatre for young audiences category. In 1994 a play based on Robert's poetry, entitled Sweet & Sour Angel Wings, was produced at the University of Hawaii. In true bardic tradition Robert is also a successful singer/song-writer. The ballad song "Instead of a Kiss", which he co-wrote with rock diva Alannah Myles, was a number one hit in Canada, while Priest's own most recent 'spoken word/song' CD Tongue 'n' Groove has been widely praised.
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