2001

Poem Painter

(multimedia website)
1998 Tongue 'n' Groove
(poetry CD) Emi-Artisan
1998 Minibugs and Microchips
(musical play) Young People's Theatre - Chalmer's Award Winner
1998 The Time Release Poems
(book of poetry) Ekstasis
1997Resurrection in the Cartoon
(book of poetry) ECW Press
1995 Socan Airplay Award for SONG INSTEAD OF A KISS
l994 A Terrible Case of the Stars
(book of poetry) Penguin
1994 The Ballad of the Blue Bonnet
(book of poetry) Groundwood
l993 Daysongs Nightsongs
(book of poetry) Groundwood
l993 Knights of the Endless Day
(novel) Viking
l992 Scream Blue Living
(new and selected poems) The Mercury Press
l992 Winterlong
(songs and poems for children on audio cassette) Waterlily Music
l992 Knights of the Endless Day
(play) Young Peoples' Theatre
l99l The Coming (an operetta) The Caravan Theatre Company
l990 Rottweiler Pacifist
(songs and poems on audio cassette) Coach House Press
l989 Playsongs and Lullabies
(songs for children on cassette) Waterlily Music
1988 The Mad Hand
(book of poems and prose) Coach House Press
1987 Broken Star
(song poem) Major Label Records
1987 The Ruby Hat
(book of poems for children) Aya Press
1986 Congo Toronto
(song-poem) Robot Records
l985 The Short hockey career of Amazing Jany
(children's story) Aya Press
l984 The Man who broke out of the Letter X
(book of poems and prose) Coach House Press
1984 Summerlong
(children's music) G-tel Records - with The Boinks
l982 The Robert Priest E.P.
(songs) Airwave Records
l980 Sadness of Spacemen
(poems and prose) Dreadnaught
l979 The Visible Man
(book of poetry) Unfinished Monument Press

25 November 2001
TEACHERS and MEDIA PEOPLE! Here's my...
  >BIOGRAPHY
  >SELECTED REVIEWS
  >PRINT-READY PICTURE
  >CONTACT INFORMATION
For videos of some of my spoken word performances visit PoemPainter.com or watch these RealMedia excerpts:
   The Non-Violent Boxer
   In Slow Apocalypse
   Dickhead (live)
Check out these audio samples from my latest CD of poetry and music: Tongue 'n' Groove (EMI/Artisan).
   Sayings
   Hey Ugly
   On Genuflection
Read some excerpts from my newest books of poetry: Resurrection in the Cartoon (ECW Press) and Time Release Poems (Ekstasis).
  >Resurrection
  >Safe Rage With Mates
  >Time Release
And... read some samples of earlier works.
  >Revolutions
  >The Non-violent Boxer
  >Little Right Wing Song...
  >In Slow Apocalypse
To send me comments or suggestions (or just say hello) email robert@poempainter.com.
 

WHAT??? You want more? For a freeform page of affiliations, links and ephemera CLICK HERE.


IN SLOW APOCALYPSE

I love our moment
in slow apocalypse 
stretching out time 
with tenderness or touch 
and we speak fast here 
in this crammed era 
grateful for distortion 
for digital 
for the Doppler Effect 

just before the fall 
the dance is most intense 

>more