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Roy James,
born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on December 8, 1941 (the day following
the bombing of Pearl Harbor), is a retired teacher of 41 years at
all levels including primary through OAC, in both public and private
schools, as well as several Ministry of Education courses. He served
as a Curriculum Consultant in Science and Mathematics for 16 of
those 41 years. Once leaving his Consultant duties, he became Department
Head of Arts at Catholic Central H.S. in Windsor and went on to
establish the Visual Arts programme at Academie Ste. Cecile International
School in rural Windsor. Twice married, he has four sons and four
grandchildren.
As a retiree
he has seriously taken up the literary gauntlet in both poetry and
prose, and is a regular contributor to T.O.P.S.' Verse Afire, as
well as a reviewer for T.O.P.S.
He is proud
to claim that he is a bibliophile, maybe even a bibliomaniac, having
accumulated several thousands of paperbacks, hardbacks and comic
books, the latter which he considers serious valid literature. A
practicing professional visual artist and illustrator as well as
a muralist, he has illustrated his own book of poetry and T.O.P.S.'
anthology Lemon Tradewinds.
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Memberships:
- The Ontario Poetry Society
- Live Poets Society, Windsor, ON
- Writers of Windsor (WOW!)
- The Writers Salon, Arts Council of Windsor
- St. Matthews Church Writers, Windsor, ON
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Selected
Anthologies:
- Whisky Sour City, Black Moss Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-88753-516-1
- Before the Frost, Polar Expressions Publishing, B.C., 2013,
ISBN 978-1-926925-22-6
- Lemon Tradewinds, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2013, ISBN
978-1-897497-81-4
- Ropedancer, The Ontario Poetry Society, 2012, ISBN 978-1-897497-71-5 |
Books in
Print:
- Zapped by
Design, Zithered by Wit, The Artisan's Well, 2011, ISBN
978-0-9761536-1-0. $21.95, 226 pgs
- The Mystery of the Clock, (to be published 2014) 217 page
novel
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Contact information:
Roy G. James (writing as R. Patrick James)
211 Lafferty Ave., Windsor (LaSalle), Ontario N9J 1K2
Phone
#: 1-519-734-6153
e-mail: Roy
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