J.D. Black
A native Montrealer, J. D. Black came late to poetry - so late his juvenalia might be seen as the product of his second childhood. Someone has said that a poet’s early works are about other poetry and the later works about the early works. Given his first influences - Johnny Jellybean, Miss Ellen of Romper Room, Sarah Binks and Adrian Mole’s Baz—and his abysmal ignorance of contemporary developments, there may be some reservations about his later production. After stints as a railway service worker, heavy equipment operator and golf-course greenskeeper (among other things), he settled on a career working in libraries, where his attempts to absorb literature by osmosis have proved fruitless. He is currently honing his poetic technique so that he may attempt country-and-western and Broadway lyrics.
