John Lent

John Lent (1948 to 2006) is a Canadian poet and novelist.

1948 to 2006, born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. Lent studied at the University of Alberta, where he was a student of Sheila Watson.

Since 1980, he has taught Creative Writing and literature courses at the New Okanagan College in Vernon, British Columbia. Lent has read his work in many cities in Canada, the United States, France and England. He was a founding member of the Kalamalka Press, the Kalamalka Institute for working writers and the annual Mackie Lecture and Reading series at New Okanagan College. Lent is also a singer/songwriter and plays in the roots/jazz trio Lent Fraser Wall.

His most recent book, "So it Won't Go Away" (2005), is a sequel to his 1996 story sequence "Monet's Garden". It was shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes' 2006 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Lent lives in Vernon, British Columbia.

Bibliography

*"A Rock Solid" - 1978
*"Wood Lake Music" - 1982
*"Frieze" - 1984
*"The Face in the Garden" - 1990
*"Monet's Garden" - 1996
*"Black Horses, Cobalt Suns" - 2000
*"So it Won't Go Away" 2005

elected discography

*"Shadow Moon" - 2005 (with the Lent/Fraser/Wall Trio)