Publications by
John Robert Lee
After Gary Butte: Poems. Castries: Mahanaim, 2015.
Co-Editor, Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of Saint Lucia. With Kendel
Hippolyte, Jane King,
Vladimir Lucien. Castries: Cultural Development Foundation, 2014. 138p.
ill.
Bibliography of St. Lucian Creative writing 1948-2013. Mahanaim; CDF,
2013;
E Book by Authorhouse, 2013.
Sighting and other poems of faith – St. Lucian edition, Mahanaim
Publishing, 2013.
Sighting and other poems of faith – limited international edition, XLibris,
2013. With E Book.
Elemental: new and selected poems. Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, UK, (2008)
Canticles (2007) – poems and photographs by the author.
Saint Lucian Literature and Theatre: an Anthology of reviews. Compiled
and edited
by John Robert Lee and Kendel Hippolyte. (2006)
Line: for Derek Walcott at 75 (2005)
Roseau Valley and other poems for Brother George Odlum - compiler and
editor.
(2003) [Fifty years of St. Lucian poems and art].
Artefacts : collected poems (2000)
Translations : new and selected poems (1993)
Clearing ground : poems (1991)
Saint Lucian : selected poems 1967-1987 (1988)
Possessions (1984)
The Prodigal (1983)
Dread Season (1978)
Vocation & other poems (1975)
Poems
and short stories have appeared in various anthologies, including:
An
anthology of African and Caribbean writing in English. Heinemann, 1982.
Callaloo,
Volume 28, Number 1 (Winter 2005)
Caribbean
New Wave : contemporary short stories. Heinemann, 1990.
Caribbean
poetry now. Hodder & Stoughton, 1992, 1984.
Confluence
: nine St. Lucian poets. Castries, 1988.
Critical
strategies for academic thinking and writing : a text and reader. 2nd
Ed. St.
Martin’s
Press, 1993.
Crossing
Water : contemporary poetry of the English-speaking Caribbean. The
Greenfield
Review Press, 1992.
The
Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories. Faber, 1990.
Facing
the sea. Heinemann, 1986.
The
Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry. Heinemann, 1992.
The
Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Oxford, 2005.
The
Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English. Penguin, 1986.
Poetry
Wales Vol. 38 no.4 (Spring 2003).
Review
81: Literature and Arts of the Americas Vol. 43 No. 2 (November 2010).
Small
Axe #13, 2003.
The
Sun’s Eye. New Ed. Longman Caribbean, 1989.
Time
for poetry. Nelson Caribbean, 1988.
Voiceprint
: an anthology of oral and related poetry from the Caribbean. Longman, 1989.
West
Indian poetry : an anthology for schools. 2nd Ed. Longman, 1989.
World
Poetry Portfolio #58: John Robert Lee. Edited by Sudeep Sen. Molossus, July 27th
2013.
Interviews
in Talk
yuh talk: interviews with Anglophone Caribbean poets. Ed. By Kwame Dawes.
University
Press of Virginia, 2001.
“On
Life, Words and Faith.” By Dr. Leanne Haynes. ARC Online magazine, June 10th
2013.
“Pointed
in the right direction: a conversation with John Robert Lee.” By Ania Kowalik.
Dépassements
online blog. October 17th 2013.
Foreign
language : Karibische Erkundungen [Anthology of Caribbean Fiction]. Berlin :
Verlag,
Volk & Welt, 1996.
Revue Noir. Paris (June-August 1993).
Compact
Disc : Viewfinder Special. English Language teaching. Munchen, Germany :
Langenscheidt-Longman, 1999.
Tribute
to the Laureates : Nobel Laureate Week 2000. Castries : produced by J.R.Lee
and Ronald ‘Boo’ Hinkson. 2000.
Poems,
articles, reviews, interviews, columns have appeared in various journals,
newspapers and websites, including:
AGENDA,
ARTS ETC (Barbados), BIM (Barbados), CARIBBEAN QUARTERLY (Jamaica), THE NEW
VOICES (Trinidad & Tobago), SAVACOU (Jamaica/UK), SMALL AXE #13, KONTE (St.
Lucia), PRAIRIE SCHOONER, POETRY WALES, RACE TODAY (U.K.), WASAFIRI (U.K.),
GREENFIELD REVIEW (U.S.A.), REVIEW:LITERATURE AND ARTS OF THE AMERICAS NO. 81
(SPECIAL ISSUE ON BOB MARLEY AND HIS LEGACY, ED. BY LORNA GOODISON AND CHRIS
WINKS), THE MISSING SLATE (November 2013), MOLOSSUS, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
REVIEW, BARBADOS ADVOCATE, THE NATION (B’dos), THE JAMAICA GLEANER, CARIBBEAN
CONTACT, THE ST. LUCIA MIRROR, THE CRUSADER (St. Lucia), THE STAR (St. Lucia),
CATHOLIC CHRONICLE (St. Lucia), THE VOICE OF ST. LUCIA, EnterText, Caribarts.org.
Miscellaneous
B.A.
Thesis : “The novels of Garth St. Omer, St. Lucian novelist” 1972. (Excerpts
published).
Introduction
: “Pebbles : poems”, by McDonald Dixon. Castries, 1973.
Introduction
: “Saint Lucia” by Jenny Palmer. Macmillan Education, 1998, 2007.
Editor,
“The Flower Festivals of Saint Lucia” Revised Edition by Hon. Msgr. Patrick A.B. Anthony, Phd, SLC.
Folk Research Centre; Jubilee Trust Fund, 2009.
Introduction:
“Dunstan St. Omer: The Man and his works” by Msgr. Patrick A. B. Anthony.
Castries: Jubilee Trust Fund, 2007.
Noteworthy:
Over many years John Robert Lee has conducted interviews (radio and television)
with many local, regional and international personalities in the arts, culture,
entertainment, politics etc, including
Derek and Roderick Walcott, Charles Cadet, Dunstan St. Omer, Msgr Patrick
Anthony, Kendel Hippolyte, Sir John Compton, Dr. Kenny Anthony, Kamau
Brathwaite, George Lamming, Rex Nettleford,
Jimmy Cliff, Seamus Heaney, Arthur Miller, Little Richard, and a host of
others. These interviews should be available in the archives of Radio St.
Lucia, Helen Television System, National Television Network, the Folk Research
Centre.
Work
in progress:
Bibliography
of Caribbean Literature in English for those discovering the literature.
Ongoing, published online at mahanaimnotes.blogspot.com.
Book
of photography. Book on St. Lucian Art. Collected Poems 1975-2015.
Editing
of various publications for the Folk Research Centre, St. Lucia.
