A School Called Normal Poems and Stories

Mosaic Press published John B. Lee’s book Into a Land of Strangers: Documentary Poems in 2019 in which he explores his own ancestry which involves the tumultuous decades of China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth Century. A School Called Normal: Poems & Stories extends the Poet’s personal history of his own youth in small town rural Ontario.

John B. Lee is widely acknowledged as one of Canada’ s the most prolific and accomplished literary figures. He is the author or editor of over seventy books, including two best-sellers, That Sign of Perfection, poems and stories on the game of hockey and, Smaller Than God, words of spiritual longing. His works have been published internationally and have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. He has won numerous prizes and awards, including the $10,000 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the People’ s Poetry Award, Poet Laureate of Brantford in Perpetuity, Honorary Poet Laureate of