From Song and Symphony Art by Shallon Fadlien Poems by John Robert Lee

After Poems Psalms Sequences 13 - 15

From Song and Symphony Art by Shallon Fadlien Poems by John Robert Lee

Dedicated to my Son and his wife Kamara and Georgian, Married in London 15.11.22

Song And Symphony Dedicated To My Son Kamara And His Wife Georgiana

Masquerader fallen (for A.B. 1948-2023) by John Robert Lee

Photo by (c) JRLee

John Robert Lee is one of the group of significant Saint Lucian writers who are the younger contemporaries of the late Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott. He is the author of elemental, (2008), Collected Poems 1975-2015, (2017), and Pierrot, (2020). His Belmont Portfolio, Poems will be published later this year by Peepal Tree. His poetry appears in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse. His reviews and columns appear widely, and he produced and presented radio and television programmes in Saint Lucia for over thirty years.

Masquerader fallen (for A.B. 1948-2023)

My father’s hand

© John Robert Lee 2023

Art by Guyanese artist Ron Savory

My father’s hand

John Robert Lee reads Dionne Brand. From her Land to light on. In Nomenclature: New and Collected poems, 2022. Recorded with permission.

Dionne Brand - Through my imperfect mouth and life

From Dialectics by Dionne Brand

From Belmont Portfolio, Poems. Peepal Tree, 2023. Section 6: Belmont Gothic, Thursday.

Belmont Portfolio, due  November 2023 published by Peepal Tree Press.  Www.peepaltreepress.com

From Belmont Portfolio, Poems. Peepal Tree, 2023. Section 6: Belmont Gothic, Thursday.

Holy Blues and other poems by John Robert Lee submitted to Preelit.com

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Holy Blues and other poems by John Robert Lee

Lament of Ti Kongo, a glosa
(for Morgan Dalphinis on his Birthday)

[Lament of Ti Kongo is one of the cycles from a work in progress, After poems, psalms, a
proposed chapbook of glosas. Art by Ken ‘Scotty’ Lawrence].

© John Robert Lee, 2022

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Lament of Ti Kongo, a glosa (for Morgan Dalphinis on his Birthday)

Remembering the late Nobel laureate for literature (1992) Derek Walcott of Saint Lucia 1930-2017. Saint Lucian poet John Robert Lee pays tribute in a memorial poem titled "White Cedar". His photo of Walcott was taken in 2010, the laureate's 80th birthday. January 23rd was Walcott's birthday."

White Cedar poem

“After Poems, Psalms” should be received as a gift, a balm and a cause for celebration. Here is a companion to assist spirit wrestlers and lovers of poetry in their quest to identify the numinous in both the human and the natural worlds. LORNA GOODISON

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Last Four Sequences Of After Poems, Psalms

John Robert Lee is one of the group of significant Saint Lucian writers who are the younger contemporaries of the late Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott. He is the author of elemental, (2008), Collected Poems 1975-2015, (2017), and Pierrot, (2020). His poetry appears in numerous magazines and anthologies, including the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse. His reviews and columns appear widely, and he produced and presented radio and television programmes in Saint Lucia for over thirty years.

John Robert Lee was born, and lives in St Lucia. His poems are included in a number of international anthologies and periodicals including The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, Poetry Wales, Small Axe, and The Missing Slate. He has also published short stories in  anthologies such as The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories, and Facing the Sea. He edited a St. Lucian anthology of poetry and art spanning fifty years, Roseau Valley and other poems, and with his younger colleague Kendel Hippolyte, he compiled and edited an anthology of reviews covering the history of St. Lucian literature and theatre, (Saint Lucian Literature and Theatre: an anthology of reviews. His reviews and columns appear widely, and he produced and presented radio and television programmes in Saint Lucia for many years. His latest book is Collected Poems 1975-2015, and his first collection was elemental, (2008). 

“Robert Lee has been a scrupulous poet, that’s the biggest virtue that he has, and it’s not a common virtue in poets, to be scrupulous and modest in the best sense, not to over-extend the range of the truth of his emotions, not to go for the grandiose. He is a Christian poet obviously. You don’t get in the poetry anything that is, in a sense, preachy or self-advertising in terms of its morality. He is a fine poet.”  

—Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate 1992

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