Into a Land of Strangers Documentary Poems

John B. Lee’s voyage of research, interviews, and travels began in his quest to learn more about his great-aunt who has served as a missionary in China. The result is this extraordinary book of discovery which takes readers back into the nineteenth century and through the tumultuous history of China during the early twentieth century. Only a master poet and historically acute person such as John B. Lee could begin this saga and complete it so convincingly.

John B. Lee is one of Canada’s most prolific literary figures. Since 1976, when he published his first book of poems, he has published over fifty books and edited nine anthologies. His work has appeared in over 500 publications his poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, and Chinese. He has read his works in South Africa, France, Korea, Cuba, the United States, and all across Canada. He has won over sixty awards for his writing, including the CBC Literary Award for Poetry and is the only two-time winner of People’s Poetry Award. He is the Poet Laureate of Brantford Ontario in perpetuity and lives with his wife in Port Dover, Ontario.