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'''Brendan McLeod''' is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist. He has been called one of Canada great performance poets. His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories. |
'''Brendan McLeod''' is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist. He has been called one of Canada great performance poets. His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories. |
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| Occupation | spoken word artist, musician, novelist, poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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Brendan McLeod is a Canadian spoken word artist, musician and novelist. He has been called one of Canada great performance poets. His work often deals with the exploration of social and political commentary, family histrionics, surreal love poems, obscure adventure stories, and powerful personal stories.
As a spoken word artist and slam poet, he has earned the honours of Canadian SLAM poetry champion (2004), Vancouver SLAM poetry champion (2005), and finished second at the 2005 World SLAM championships, held in Holland. In 2006 McLeod was winner of the Three-Day Novel Contest and consequently his first novel, The Convictions of Leonard McKinley was published by Arsenal Pulp Press. The novel has been called both "creepy but...good"[1] and a work of "buoyant irony"[2].
McLeod is also a member of The Fugitives, a "wildly talented spoken-word-cranked"[3] Vancouver-based band also including Mark Berube, Barbara Adler. The group has been classified under many guises including slam folk, folk hop[4], and spoken word cabaret.
References
- ^ So Misguided, Book Review: The Convictions of Leonard McKinley, Sunday, September 02, 2007 http://www.somisguided.com/weblog/book-review-the-convictions-of-leonard-mckinley/
- ^ Globe & Mail, "Why must I be a teenager in lust?", JIM BARTLEY, August 4, 2007 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070804.BKBART04/TPStory/Entertainment/Books
- ^ The Georgia Straight, "Dance All-Stars", Janet Smith, March 1, 2007 http://www.straight.com/article-72987/dance-all-stars
- ^ The Omega, Thompson River University's Independent Student Newspaper, "Fugitives rock Alumni Theatre", Jessica Scharien, 02/04/09 http://www.theomega.ca/article/17678