The Essential Kenneth Leslie

Download or read book The Essential Kenneth Leslie written by Kenneth Leslie and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career that spanned more than half a century, Kenneth Leslie published six books of poetry, including By Stubborn Stars, which won the Governor-General’s medal in 1938. He also created The Protestant, one of the more controversial political publications of the 1930s and ’40s, which earned him a national reputation in the United States as well as the unwanted attention of the FBI. ‘God’s Red Poet’ also produced a mass circulation anti-fascist comic book, and composed the words and music for ‘Cape Breton Lullaby’, a well-known popular song. Among his less successful ventures were a ‘Broadway’ musical, which collapsed in rehearsals, and a few dozen other songs which did not sell in Tin Pan Alley.