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John B. Lee : Publications

Books

Poems Only A Dog Could Love, (poetry) Applegarth Follies, London, Ontario, 1976
Love Among the Tombstones, (poetry) Dogwood Press, Simcoe, Ontario, 1980
Fossils of the Twentieth Century, (poetry) Vesta Publications, Cornwall, Ontario, 1983
Small Worlds, (poetry) Vesta Publications, Cornwall, Ontario, 1986
Hired Hands, (poetry and prose) Brick Books, 1986
Rediscovered Sheep, (poetry) Brick Books, 1987
The Bad Philosophy of Good Cows, (poetry) Black Moss Press, Windsor, Ontario, 1989
The Hockey Player Sonnets, (poetry) Penumbra Press, 1991
The Pig Dance Dreams, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1991
When Shaving Seems Like Suicide, (poetry) Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, NB, 1992
The Art of Walking Backwards, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1993
Variations on Herb, (poetry and prose) Brick Books, London, Ontario, 1993
All the Cats Are Gone, (poetry) Penumbra Press, 1993
These Are the Days of Dogs and Horses, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1994
Head Heart Hands Health: A History of 4H in Ontario, (non fiction) Comrie Productions, Peterborough, Ontario, 1994
The Beatles Landed Laughing in New York, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1995
Tongues of the Children, (documentary poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 1996
Never Hand Me Anything if I am Walking or Standing, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1997
Soldier's Heart, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 1998
Stella's Journey, (poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 1999
Don't Be So Persnickety, (children's verse) Black Moss Press, 2000
Building Bicycles in the Dark: a practical guide to writing, (non fiction) Black Moss Press, 2001
The Half-Way Tree: selected poems of John B. Lee, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 2001
In the Terrible Weather of Guns, (documentary poetry and prose) Mansfield Press, Toronto, 2002
The Hockey Player Sonnets: overtime edition, (poetry) Penumbra Press, Ottawa, Ontario, 2003
Totally Unused Heart, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 2003
The Farm on the Hill He Calls Home, (memoir) Black Moss Press, 2004
Poems for the Pornographer's Daughter, (poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 2005
Godspeed, (documentary poetry and prose) Black Moss Press, 2006
Left Hand Horses: meditations on influence and the imagination, (essays) Black Moss Press, 2007
The Place that We Keep After Leaving, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 2008
Being Human, (poetry) Sanbun Press, 2010
Dressed in Dead Uncles, (poetry) Black Moss Press, 2010
Sweet Cuba: The Building of a Poetic Tradition: 1608-1958, translations by John B. Lee and Manuel Leon, (poetry/translation) Hidden Brook Press, 2010
King Joe: A Matter of Treason-the life and times of Joseph Willcocks 1773-September 4, 1812, (non fiction) Heronwood Productions, 2010 (forthcoming)
In the Muddy Shoes of Morning, (poetry) Hidden Brook Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Chapbooks

To Kill a White Dog, (documentary poem) Brick Books, 1982
The Day Jane Fonda Came to Guelph, (poetry) The Ploughman Press, Whitby, Ontario, 1996
What's in a Name: the pursuit of George Peacock, Namesake of Peacock Point, (essay) Dogwood Press, Brantford, Ontario, 1996
In a Language with No Word For Horses, (documentary poems) above/ground press, Ottawa, Ontario, 1997
The Echo of Your Words Has Reached Me, (poetry) Mekler & Deahl, Hamilton, Ontario, 1998
An Almost Silent Drumming: the South Africa poems, (poetry) Cranberry Tree Press, Windsor, Ontario, 2001
Thirty-Three Thousand Shades of Green, (poetry) Leaf Press, Lantzville, BC, 2004
Though Their Joined Hearts Drummed Like Larks, (documentary poetry) Passion Among the Cacti Press, Kitchener, Ontario, 2004
Bright Red Apples of the Dead, (poetry) Pooka Press, BC, 2004
How Beautiful We Are, (poetry) Souwesto Orion Prize, Black Moss Press, 2006
But Where Were the Horses of Evening, (poetry) Serengeti Press, 2007
One Leaf in the Breath of the World, (poetry) Beret Days Books, 2009
Let Light Try All the Doors, (poetry) Rubicon Press, 2009

Editor

That Sign of Perfection: From Bandy Legs to Beer Legs (poems and stories on the game of hockey), (anthology) Black Moss Press, 1995
Losers First: poems and stories on game and sport, (anthology) Black Moss Press, 1999
I Want to Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps: poems of quirky romance, (anthology) Black Moss Press, 1999
Following the Plough: poems and stories on the land, (anthology) Black Moss Press, 2000
Henry's Creature: poems and stories on the automobile, (anthology co-edited with Roger Bell) Black Moss Press, 2000
Smaller Than God: words of spiritual longing, (anthology co-edited with Brother Paul Quenon) Black Moss Press, 2001
Body Language: a head-to-toe anthology, (anthology) Black Moss Press, 2003
Witness: anthology of war poetry, (anthology) Serengeti Press, Mississauga, Ontario, 2004
Bonjour Burgundy, (anthology) Mosaic Press, 2008
Decabration: tenth anniversary of The Ontario Poetry Society, Beret Days Books, 2010
Tough Times: When the Money Doesn't Love Us, Black Moss Press, 2010
When the Moon Rises over Santiago, Hidden Brook Press, 2010 (forthcoming)

Work-in-progress

An Unfinished War: anthology of literature inspired by the war of 1812 in the Niagara and Western Districts (forthcoming from Black Moss Press, 2011)
The Widow's Land
The Full Measure