Lea Harper

Lea Harper is a poet and songwriter living on a lake in the Haliburton Highlands where she writes and is raising two daughters. As a musician and singer, she has performed in Los Angeles, Jamaica and South America. Her group Syren released three records, was nominated for a Juno and won the Canadian Reggae Award for Top Duo. Her songs are currently receiving airplay in Taiwan and South Africa. She is the author of two collections of poetry: All That Saves Us and Shadow Crossing.

 

Awards
The Icarus Competition, third prize, 1995.
People's Political Poem Contest, double-winner, 1998.
LaPointe Prize, 1999

 

Selected Publications
The One. recording. (Magnum Opus Records, 1983).
Higher Love. recording. (Magnum Opus Records, 1984).
Let Them Live (A tribute to the Lubicon Cree). recording. (Magnum Opus Records, 1991).
Wisdom of the Heart. recording. (Magnum Opus Records, 1993).
All That Saves Us. (Black Moss Press, 1998).

Shadow Crossing. (Black Moss Press, 2000)

 

Selected Anthologies
Vintage'94. (Quarry Press, 1995) ISBN 1-555082-149-0
Carnival, a Scream in High Park reader. (Insomniac Press, 1996). ISBN 1-895837-38-3

Following the Plough. (Black Moss Press, 2000) ISBN 0-88753-338-8
The Song for the Inner Ear. (Unfinished Monument Press, 1998).
The Mentor's Canon, (Broken Jaw Press, 2001) ISBN1-896647-46-4

 

Books in Print
Harper, Lea
All That Saves Us. (Poetry) Black Moss Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-88753-308-6,$16.95

Shadow Crossing. (Poetry) Black Moss Press, 2000 ISBN 0-88753-346-9 $16.95

 

Lea Harper, Box 326, R.R. 1, Haliburton, Ontario K0M 1S0 Canada
lea.harper@sympatico.ca

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