It was announced yesterday that Peter Li will be invested as a Member of The Order of Canada in 2016.
The Order of Canada, one of the highest civilian honours, was established in 1967, Canada’s centennial year, to recognize outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation.
Vancourver Sun, December 30, 2015; Here is his website in his former university.
Here are his poems in our Blog site.
[Alumni awarded with Order of Canada : SL Kong (53), Philip Lee (60), Tak Wah MAK (62)]
Peter Li to a group of CLC friends 2 Jan 2016 - I managed to publish my collection of Chinese poetry earlier this year (楓林晚照 詩詞集). The book has 200 Chinese poems of mine, mostly Ci, written over the past 25 years....
I select two here for your interest, both to reminisce friends of old.
江城子 翻閱三十年前香港中學時代舊友贈言錄 1996.6.13
少年不識志難酬，論高謀，說春秋。當日贈言，墨跡至今留。三十年前隨浪去，昔翠貌，變秋愁。 無情舊月照西樓。譽沉浮，繭絲囚。殘雨聲聲、長夜未能休。只見飛鴻泥印爪，從此去，不回頭。
臨江仙 中秋在即懷念故人 2015.9.25
寂寞陽台秋色晚，又是楓葉鮮紅。當年歡樂暢杯中。笑聲剛遠處，相遇正情濃。 別後時光人易改，月明依舊春風。斷詞片字附歸鴻。嫦娥奔月去，銀海照芳蹤。