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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This is a list of Canadian poets. Years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles.

A



  • Mark Abley (born 1955), Canadian poet, journalist, editor and non-fiction writer.
  • Milton Acorn (1923â€"1986), poet, writer, and playwright
  • José Acquelin
  • Gil Adamson, novelist, poet, short-story writer (a woman)
  • Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953), Haitian native living in Canada since 1970; novelist, poet and writer of children's books
  • Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (born 1965), Native American writer and poet, founder (in 1993) of Kegedonce Press, specializing in indigenous writers
  • Donald Alarie (born 1945), writer, poet and teacher
  • Edna Alford, editor, author and poet who co-founded the magazine Dandelion
  • Sandra Alland (born 1973), Scottish-Canadian writer, multimedia artist, bookseller, small press publisher and activist
  • Donna Allard, editor and poet
  • Lillian Allen (born 1951), dub poet
  • Anne-Marie Alonzo (1951â€"2005), playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher, born in Egypt and moved to Canada at the age of 12
  • George Amabile (born 1936)
  • Marguerite Andersen (born 1924), German-born, primarily francophone writer, academic and editor
  • Patrick Anderson (1915â€"1979), English-born Canadian poet and academic
  • Rod Anderson (1935), poet, musician and accountant
  • Michael Andre (born 1946), poet, critic and editor living in the United States
  • Jeannette Armstrong (born 1948), Native American author, educator, artist, and activist
  • David Arnason (born 1940), author and poet
  • Rod Anderson (born 1935), poet, musician
  • Joanne Arnott (born 1960), Métis poet, essayist, activist writer
  • Margaret Atwood (born 1939), poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist and activist
  • Margaret Avison (born 1918â€"2007)

B



  • Lisa B, political spoken word poet who has published chapbooks
  • Ken Babstock
  • Elizabeth Bachinsky
  • Alfred Bailey (1905â€"1997) poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator
  • Jacob Bailey (1731â€"1808), a Church of England clergyman and poet born in the United States (colony of New Hampshire), immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1779
  • Chris Banks (born 1970)
  • Kaushalya Bannerji, native of India
  • Frances Bannerman
  • John Barton (born 1957)
  • Gary Barwin, author, composer, children's writer and poet
  • Jalal Barzanji (born 1953), Kurdish poet and writer living in Canada since 1998
  • Shaunt Basmajian (1950â€"1990), poet and author
  • Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo (born 1967)), Ivoirian born Canadian poet and journalist
  • Bill Bauer American-born, living in Canada since 1965, husband of Nancy Bauer
  • Nancy Bauer(born 1934), American-born, living in Canada since 1965, wife of Bill Bauer
  • Doug Beardsley (born 1941), poet and academic
  • Nérée Beauchemin (1850â€"1931) francophone poet and physician (a man)
  • Derek Beaulieu (born 1973) poet, publisher and anthologist.
  • Joseph-Isidore Bédard (1806â€"1833), poet, lawyer and politician
  • Ven Begamudré, Indian-born poet, short-story writer, novelist and academic
  • Henry Beissel (born 1929), poet, author, writer and editor
  • Ken Belford (born 1946)
  • John Bemrose, arts journalist, novelist, poet and playwright
  • Robbie Benoit (died 2007), poet and writer
  • Jovette Bernier (1900â€"1981), Quebec poet, novelist and journalist
  • Navtej Bharati, India native and Canadian resident who has published books, including books of poetry, in Punjabi and English; publisher of Third Eye Press
  • Jean-Philippe Bergeron, francophone writer and poet
  • Craven Langstroth Betts, author and poet
  • Navtej Bharati, Punjabi-language poet living in Canada
  • Robert Billings (1949â€"1986), poet and editor
  • Earle Birney (1904â€"1995)
  • bill bissett (born 1939)
  • Mark Blagrave (born 1956), writer, short-story writer, playwright, poet and academic
  • Robin Blaser (born 1925), author and poet (a man)
  • Laurie Block (born 1949), a man
  • E. D. Blodgett (born 1935), poet, literary critic, and translator
  • Robert Boates (born 1954)
  • Christian Bök, born "Christian Book" (born 1966), poet and author
  • Stephanie Bolster (born 1969), poet and academic
  • Roo Borson pen name of Ruth Elizabeth Borson (born 1952), American native living in Canada
  • Hédi Bouraoui (born 1932), Tunisian-born Canadian poet, novelist and academic
  • Arthur Bourinot (1893â€"1969), poet and lawyer
  • George Bowering(born 1935), novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
  • Marilyn Bowering (1949), poet, novelist and playwright
  • Tim Bowling (born 1964), poet and novelist
  • Alex Boyd, poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist and editor
  • Kate Braid, poet and teacher
  • Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (1963â€"2008), novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer and short-story writer
  • Shannon Bramer (born 1973), poet and teacher
  • Dionne Brand (born 1953), poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to Canada
  • Di Brandt née "Diana Ruth Janzen" (born 1952), poet and literary critic
  • Jacques Brault (born 1933), French Canadian poet and translator
  • Diana Brebner (1956â€"2001)
  • Brian Brett (born 1950), poet and novelist
  • Elizabeth Brewster (born 1922), poet and academic
  • Robert Bringhurst (born 1946), poet, typographer and author
  • David Bromige (born 1933), Canadian poet living in the United States since 1962
  • Nicole Brossard (born 1943), francophone poet and novelist
  • Audrey Alexandra Brown (1904â€"1998)
  • Ronnie R. Brown (born 1946), American native living in Canada for most of her adult life
  • Julie Bruck
  • Robert Budde (born 1966), poet, novelist and academic
  • Suzanne Buffam
  • April Bulmer (born 1963)
  • Murdoch Burnett (born 1953), Canadian poet, performance artist, editor, and community activist
  • Mick Burrs
  • Aaron Bushkowsky

C



  • Stephen Cain (born 1970), poet and academic
  • Alison Calder, poet and academic
  • Frank Oliver Call
  • Barry Callaghan (born 1937), author and poet; son of the author Morley Callaghan
  • Jason Camlot (born 1967), poet, scholar and songwriter
  • Anne Cameron (born 1938), novelist, poet, screenwriter and short story writer
  • George Frederick Cameron (24 Sept. 1854 â€" 17 Sept. 1885), poet, lawyer, and journalist
  • Wilfred Campbell (1858â€"1918), poet and Anglican clergyman
  • Natalee Caple (born 1970), novelist and poet
  • Paul Cargnello(born 1979), Montreal poet, lyricist
  • Bliss Carman (1861â€"1929), poet and critic
  • Anne Carson (born 1950), poet, essayist, translator, and academic
  • Catherine Chandler (born 1950), poet, translator, and academic
  • William Chapman (1850â€"1917), poet, journalist and bureaucrat
  • Jean Charbonneau (1875â€"1960), francophone poet who was the primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
  • Herménégilde Chiasson (born 1946), Acadian poet, playwright, journalist, academic and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
  • Robert Choquette (1905â€"1991), novelist, poet and, briefly, (1968â€"1970) a diplomat
  • Lesley Choyce (born 1951), novelist, writer, children's book writer, poet, and academic who founded Pottersfield Press and hosts the television program "Choyce Words" and "Off the Page"; born in the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1979
  • Margaret Christakos (born 1962), poet and university writing teacher
  • Evie Christie (born 1979)
  • Dave Clark, musician who published a book of poetry
  • George Elliott Clarke (born 1960), poet and playwright.
  • Wayne Clifford (born 1944)
  • Fred Cogswell (1917â€"2004)
  • Leonard Cohen (1934), singer-songwriter, musician, published poet and novelist
  • Matt Cohen, (1942â€"1999), writer and poet
  • Don Coles (born 1928), poet, author and academic
  • John Robert Colombo (born 1936), poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist
  • Anne Compton (born 1947), poet, critic, and anthologist
  • Wayde Compton (born 1972), poet, writer, turntable-based "sound poetry" performer, academic who co-founded Commodore Books, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada
  • Jan Conn (born 1952), geneticist and poet living in the United States
  • Karen Connelly (born 1969), writer and poet
  • Kevin Connolly
  • Dennis Cooley (born 1944), poet and academic
  • Afua Cooper, Jamaican-born historian and dub poet
  • Paulo da Costa Canadian-Portuguese author, editor and translator
  • Dani Couture (born 1978), poet, essayist, critic and journalist
  • Thomas Cowherd (1817â€"1907), tinsmith and poet
  • Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850â€"1887), poet, novelist and short-story writer
  • Octave Crémazie(1827â€"1879), francophone poet who has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse
  • Lynn Crosbie (born 1963), poet and novelist
  • Lorna Crozier began writing under the name "Lorna Uher" (born 1948)
  • Michael Crummey (born 1965), poet and writer.
  • Julie Crysler, journalist and poet
  • Nancy Jo Cullen
  • Jen Currin

D



  • Cyril Dabydeen (born 1945), native Guyana poet and writer living in Canada
  • Kalli Dakos (born 1950), children's poet and teacher
  • Mary Dalton, poet and academic
  • Joseph A. Dandurand, Native American poet, playwright, and archaeologist
  • Beverley Daurio (born 1953)
  • Frank Davey (born 1940), poet and academic
  • Nicholas Flood Davin (1840â€"1901), lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
  • Tanya Davis, spoken word poet and musician
  • Tom Dawe (born 1940), writer, poet, children's book author, artist
  • Adriana de Barros (born 1976), Portuguese native who moved to Canada at age 3; illustrator, web designer and poet
  • Sadiqa de Meijer
  • James Deahl (born 1945), moved to Canada from the United States in 1970 and a citizen of both countries; poet, academic and publisher of Unfinished Monument Press; founding member of the Canadian Poetry Association
  • Kris Demeanor
  • Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, performance art duo who have collaborated on performances, films, videos, publications and public art projects since 1989
  • Barry Dempster (born 1952), poet and novelist
  • Michelle Desbarats
  • Christopher Dewdney (born 1951), poet, writer, artist, creative writing teacher and writer in residence at various universities
  • Ann Diamond (born 1951), an award-winning Montreal poet, novelist and short-story writer
  • Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (born 1949), Italian-born, Canadian poet and priest
  • Mary di Michele (born 1949), Italian-born, Canadian poet, author and creative writing teacher
  • Robert Dickson (1944â€"2007), poet, translator and academic.
  • Kildare Dobbs (born 1923), Indian-born teacher, poet, editor, short-story writer and travel writer who moved to Canada in 1950
  • Jeramy Dodds
  • Don Domanski (born 1950)
  • Magie Dominic (born 1944), poet and artist
  • Jeffery Donaldson, poet and critic
  • David Donnell (born 1939), poet and writer
  • Candas Dorsey (born 1952), poet and science fiction novelist
  • Clive Doucet (born 1946), writer poet, and politician
  • Gordon Downie (born 1964), song writer, poet and musician
  • Orville Lloyd Douglas (born 1976), poet and writer
  • William Henry Drummond (1854â€"1907) Irish-born Canadian poet
  • Louis Dudek (1918â€"2001) poet, literary critic and publisher
  • Marilyn Dumont (born 1955)

E



  • Evelyn Eaton (1902â€"1983), novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic
  • Vic Elias (1948â€"2006), American-born, living in Canada from 1979, poet and academic
  • Ronda Eller
  • David Elliott (1923â€"1999), poet and academic
  • Rebecca Elson (1960â€"1999), Canadian-American astronomer, academic writer and poet
  • Reuben Epp (born 1920) teacher, school administrator, writer and poet in Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German)

F



  • Chris Faiers (born 1948), librarian, poet and publisher of Unfinished Monument Press, which he founded in 1978
  • Margaret Fairley (1885â€"1968), English-born Canadian writer, educator and political activist
  • Brian Fawcett (born 1944), poet, novelist, nonfiction author and writer
  • Charles Fenerty (c. 1821 â€" 1982), Canadian poet, journalist, and inventor. Published two poems in book format in 1855 and 1866, and wrote over 32 poems (mostly published in local newspapers).
  • Ferron, born Debby Foisy (1952), folk singer, songwriter and poet
  • George Fetherling, wrote as "Doug Feathering" or "Douglas Fetherling" until 1999 when he began using his middle name (born 1949), American-born poet, novelist, journalist and essayist who moved to Canada at age 18 and became a Canadian citizen
  • Kathy Figueroa Bancroft, Ontario poet and writer
  • Robert Finch (1900â€"1995), poet and academic whose area of expertise was French poetry
  • Joan Finnigan (1925â€"2007), writer, poet, teacher and newspaper reporter
  • Jon Paul Fiorentino, poet, novelist, short-story writer, academic and editor of Matrix magazine
  • Judith Fitzgerald (born 1952), poet and journalist
  • Robert Ford (1915â€"1998), poet, translator and diplomat
  • Raymond Fraser (born 1941), novelist, poet, biographer, essayist and editor
  • Louis-Honoré Fréchette (1839â€"1908), French Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short-story writer
  • Patrick Friesen (born 1946), poet and university-level creative writing teacher
  • Mark Frutkin (born 1948), American-born novelist and poet who moved to Canada in 1970 as a Vietnam War draft resister

G



  • Radovan Gajić (born 1953)
  • Keith Garebian (born 1943), critic, editor, biographer, and poet
  • François-Xavier Garneau (1809â€"1866), French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant and historian
  • Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912â€"1943), first modernist French Canadian poet
  • Bill Gaston (born 1953), novelist, playwright, short-story writer and poet
  • Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (1824â€"1882), French Canadian poet and novelist
  • Marty Gervais (born 1946), poet, photographer, professor, journalist, and publisher of Black Moss Press
  • Elsa Gidlow
  • Angus Morrison Gidney (1803â€"1882), educator, poet and journalist
  • Gerry Gilbert
  • Charles Ignace Adélard Gill (1871â€"1918), painter and poet
  • John Glassco (1909â€"1981), poet, memoirist and novelist
  • Jacques Godbout (born 1933), novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
  • Gérald Godin (1938â€"1994), French Canadian poet and politician
  • Oliver Goldsmith (1794â€"1861)
  • Leona Gom (born 1946), novelist and poet
  • Katherine L. Gordon
  • Phyllis Gotlieb (born 1926), science fiction novelist and poet
  • Sue Goyette (born 1964), poet and novelist
  • Neile Graham (born 1958), poet and academic
  • Alain Grandbois (1900â€"1975), French Canadian poet
  • Richard Greene
  • Leslie Greentree, poet, short-story writer and freelance writer
  • Andreas Gripp (born 1964)
  • Ralph Gustafson (1909â€"1995), poet and academic
  • Genni Gunn (born 1949), novelist, poet, and translator
  • Gregory Wm. Gunn
  • Kristjana Gunnars, Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist

H



  • Paul Haines (1933â€"2003), poet and jazz lyricist, born in the United States and later a Canadian resident
  • Phil Hall (born 1953), poet, academic and publisher of broadsides and chapboooks under the Flat Singles Press imprint since 1976
  • Jane Eaton Hamilton (born 1954), short-story writer, poet and photographer
  • Claire Harris (born 1937)
  • Michael Harris
  • Richard Harrison
  • Paul Hartal (born 1936), painter and poet, born Hungary
  • Jill Hartman (born 1974 in poetry), poet and editor
  • Elisabeth Harvor (née Deichman) (born 1936), novelist and poet
  • Robert Hayman (1575â€"1629), poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
  • Charles Heavysege (1816â€"1876)
  • Anne Hébert (1916â€"2000), French-Canadian novelist and poet
  • Allison Hedge Coke 1958), poet, writer, artist, activist and academic
  • Wilfrid Heighington (1897â€"1945), soldier, writer, poet lawyer and politician
  • Steven Heighton (born 1961), novelist and poet
  • David Helwig (born 1938), poet, novelist and essayist; father of Maggie Helwig
  • Maggie Helwig (born 1961), poet, novelist, peace and human rights activist; daughter of David Helwig
  • Brian Henderson (born 1948), poet, academic and editor
  • Robert Hilles (born 1951), poet and novelist
  • Clive Holden
  • Nancy Holmes
  • Emily Holton
  • Cornelia Hoogland (born 1952), poet and academic
  • Sean Horlor (born 1981) poet, former speechwriter, freelance writing consultant
  • Harry Howith (born 1934)
  • Ray Hsu, poet and academic
  • Helen Humphreys (born 1961), poet and novelist
  • Al Hunter poet, author, tribal leader, activist
  • Aislinn Hunter (born 1969), poet and author
  • Bruce Hunter (born 1952), teacher, poet and fiction writer
  • Catherine Hunter (born 1957), poet, novelist, editor, academic and critic
  • Chris Hutchinson (born 1972)
  • Douglas Smith Huyghue (1816â€"1891), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist

I



  • Susan Ioannou (born 1944)
  • Frances Itani (born 1942), novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist

J



  • Suzanne Jacob (born 1943), novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic
  • Jemeni
  • Paulette Jiles (born 1943), American-born poet and novelist who moved to Canada in 1969
  • Rita Joe (1932â€"2007), Mi'kmaq-Canadian poet and songwriter, called the "poet laureate of the Mi'kmaq people"
  • Reg Johanson (born 1968), composition and literature instructor, poet and essayist
  • E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake" (1861â€"1913)
  • D. G. Jones (born 1929), poet, translator and educator
  • Julie Joosten
  • Eve Joseph (born 1953), poet and author

K



  • Surjeet Kalsey, poet, dramatist, short story writer and translator who writes in both Punjabi and English
  • Smaro Kamboureli, poet and academic
  • Lionel Kearns (born 1937), poet and teacher
  • M. T. Kelly (born 1946), novelist, poet and playwright.
  • Penn Kemp, novelist, playwright, poet and sound poet
  • Leo Kennedy (1907â€"2000), modernist poet, published in the 1930s.
  • Robert Kirkland Kernighan (1854â€"1926), poet, journalist and farmer
  • Roy Kiyooka (1926â€"1994), photographer, poet and artist
  • Johann Peter Klassen (1868â€"1947), Russian Mennonite poet and writer who immigrated to Canada in 1923 and wrote primarily in German
  • Sarah Klassen (born 1932), poet and fiction writer
  • A. M. Klein (1909â€"1972), poet, journalist, novelist, and short story writer
  • Raymond Knister (1899â€"1932), novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and journalist
  • Joy Kogawa (born 1935), poet and novelist
  • Maka Kotto (born 1961), Cameroon-born francophone Canadian, provincial level politician, former Canadian House of Commons member who published a book of poetry in 2002
  • Shane Koyczan (born 1976), spoken word poet
  • Robert Kroetsch (born 1927)), novelist, poet, non-fiction writer and academic
  • Janice Kulyk Keefer (born 1952), novelist, poet and academic

L



  • Sonnet L'Abbé, poet and critic
  • Pierre Labrie (born 1972), French Canadian poet
  • Edward A. Lacey
  • Dany Laferrière (born 1953), Haitian-born francophone novelist, journalist and poet who moved to Canada in 1976
  • Archibald Lampman (1861â€"1899)
  • Tim Lander (born 1938)
  • Patrick Lane (born 1939)
  • M. Travis Lane (born 1934), American-born Canadian poet who moved to Canada in 1960
  • Rina Lasnier (1915â€"1997), French Canaadian poet and playwright
  • Evelyn Lau (born 1971), poet and novelist
  • Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
  • Irving Layton (1912â€"2006)
  • Gérald Leblanc(1947â€"2005), French Canadian poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and writer
  • Félix Leclerc (1914â€"1988), songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, actor, radio announcer, radio scriptwriter and writer
  • Dennis Lee (born 1939), poet, writer and children's fiction author
  • John B. Lee (born 1951), author, poet and academic
  • Sylvia Legris (born 1960)
  • John Lent (1948â€"2006), poet and novelist
  • Douglas LePan (1914â€"1998), diplomat, poet, novelist and academic
  • Tim Lilburn (born 1950), poet and essayist
  • Charles Lillard (born 1944â€"1997), poet and historian
  • Dorothy Livesay (1909â€"1996)
  • Billie Livingston (born 1965), novelist and poet
  • Douglas Lochhead (1922-2011), poet, librarian, and academic
  • Pat Lowther (1935â€"1975)

M



  • Rozena Maart (born 1962), poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, academic and psychotherapist; South African living in Canada
  • Karen Mac Cormack (born 1956), experimental poet born in Zambia, who holds dual British/Canadian citizenship, she has moved from Toronto to Buffalo, New York, with her husband, poet Steve McCaffery
  • Hugh MacDonald (born 1945), poet, children's writer and editor
  • Wilson MacDonald (1880â€"1967)
  • Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941â€"1987), novelist and poet
  • Walter Scott MacFarlane (1896â€"1979), poet and soldier
  • Tom MacInnes (1867â€"1951), poet and writer
  • Andrea MacPherson, poet and novelist
  • Jay Macpherson (born 13 June 1931), poet and academic (a woman)*
  • Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942), author and poet
  • Charles Mair (1838 or 1840â€"1927), poet and political activist
  • Robert Majzels (born 1950), novelist, poet, playwright and translator
  • Alice Major, contemporary poet
  • Kim Maltman (born 1951), poet and physicist (a man)
  • Eli Mandel (1922â€"1992), poet, essayist and academic
  • Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (born 1953 Jamaican-born dub poet, theatre producer, and artistic director; Jamaican native living in Canada
  • David Manicom (born 1960), diplomat, poet and novelist
  • Lee Maracle (born 1950), Native American poet and author
  • Blaine Marchand
  • Nicole Markotic, poet and novelist
  • Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle (born 1942)
  • Tom Marshall (1938â€"1993), Canadian poet and novelist
  • Émile Martel
  • Garth Martens
  • Camille Martin (born 1956), Canadian poet and collage artist
  • Robin Mathews (born 1931), Canadian poet and professor, known for his political activism in support of Canadian independence from U.S. domination
  • Seymour Mayne (born 1944), poet and literary translator
  • Chandra Mayor (born 1973), poet and novelist
  • Robert McBride (1811 or 1812â€"1895), Irish-born Canadian poet
  • Steven McCabe, contemporary artist and poet
  • Steve McCaffery (born 1947), poet and academic born in England and moved to Toronto in 1968; husband of poet Karen MacCormack
  • Susan McCaslin (born 1947), poet and academic
  • John McCrae (1872â€"1918), poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres; best known for writing the famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields.
  • Roy McDonald (born 1937), is a poet and busker (street performer)
  • David McFadden (born 11 October 1940), poet, fiction writer, and travel writer
  • Wendy McGrath, poet and novelist
  • David McGimpsey, poet, humorist and academic
  • Nadine McInnis (born 1956), poet, short-story writer and essayist
  • James McIntyre (1828â€"1906), called "The Cheese Poet"
  • Don McKay (born 1942), poet, editor, and educator
  • Barry McKinnon (born 1944)
  • Brendan McLeod (born 1979), poet, novelist, member of The Fugitives.
  • Susan McMaster (born 1950), poet, literary editor, and spoken word performer
  • Steve McOrmond (born 1957), poet and academic
  • Mary Melfi (born 1951), Italian-born poet, novelist and playwright who immigrated to Canada as a young child
  • Iman Mersal (born 1966), Egyptian-born Egyptian/Canadian poet and professor of Arabic literature
  • Bruce Meyer (born 1957), poet and academic
  • Pauline Michel novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter
  • Anne Michaels (born 1958), poet and novelist
  • Roy Miki (born 1942), poet and academic
  • Kenneth G. Mills (1923â€"2004)
  • Roswell George Mills
  • Gaston Miron (1928â€"1996), French Canadian poet, writer, and editor
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874â€"1942), Primarily an author, but also a poet from PEI.
  • Marion E. Moodie (1867â€"1958), nurse, botanist and poet
  • Susanna Moodie (1803â€"1885), British-born Canadian author and poet
  • Jacob McArthur Mooney (born 1983)
  • Pamela Mordecai (born 1942), Jamaican writer, teacher, scholar and poet living in Canada since 1994
  • Pierre Morency (born 1942), French Canadian writer, poet and playwright
  • Dwayne Morgan spoken word artist, motivational speaker, event organizer and poet
  • Jeffrey Morgan (born 19??), Primarily a writer, but with poetry published in Rolling Stone and Bakka Magazine.
  • Kim Morrissey (born 1955), poet and playwright
  • Colin Morton (born 1948)
  • A. F. Moritz (born 1947), poet and academic
  • Daniel David Moses (born 1952), Native American Canadian poet and playwright
  • Erin Mouré (born 1955)
  • William Murdoch (1823â€"1887), Scottish-Canadian poet, writer and gasworks manager who immigrated to Canada in 1854
  • George Murray, poet and an associate editor at Maisonneuve Magazine, contributing editor at several literary magazines
  • Susan Musgrave (born 1951), poet and children's writer
  • Jane Musoke-Nteyafas (born c. 1976), poet, writer, visual artist, columnist and playwright

N



  • Akhtar Naraghi
  • Roger Nash (born 1942), English-born philosopher, poet and academic
  • Lyle Neff (born 1969), poet, journalist, essayist and literary critic
  • Lorri Neilsen Glenn, poet, ethnographer, essayist and academic
  • Émile Nelligan (1879â€"1941), francophone poet from Quebec
  • Holly Nelson, writer, poet, activist, journalist, leader of the Green Party of Manitoba (2005â€"2006)
  • Pierre Nepveu (born 1946), French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
  • W. H. New (born 1938), poet, editor and literary critic
  • bpNichol Barrie Phillip Nichol, who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces (1944â€"1988), poet and writer
  • John Newlove (1938â€"2003)
  • Alden Nowlan (1933â€"1983), poet, novelist, playwright and journalist

O



  • Patrick O'Connell (1944â€"2005)
  • Sheree-Lee Olson, novelist, poet and journalist
  • Michael Ondaatje (born 1943), Sri Lankan novelist and poet with Canadian citizenship
  • Heather O'Neill, novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist
  • Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska (born 1930), French-Canadian writer, novelist, essayist and poet
  • Richard Outram (1930â€"2005), poet and writer; co-founder, with his wife, Barbara Howard, of The Gauntlet Press

P



  • P. K. Page (born 1916)
  • Corrado Paina (born 1954), Italian poet living in Canada since 1987, editorial director of the quarterly magazine ItalyCanada Trade
  • Arleen Paré
  • John Pass (born 1947), English-born Canadian poet and academic who has lived in Canada since 1953; married to poet and novelist Theresa Kishkan
  • Philip Kevin Paul
  • Neil Peart (born 1952), musician, songwriter, producer, author, drummer of the Canadian Rock band Rush
  • Sasenarine Persaud Guyana-born, Canadian essayist, novelist, short story writer, and poet
  • W. T. Pfefferle, poet, writer and academic
  • M. NourbeSe Philip (born 1947), poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and short story writer
  • Ben Phillips (born 1947), poet, teacher and publisher
  • Alison Pick, poet and novelist
  • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born 1975), American-born poet, spoken-word poet, writer, educator and social activist living in Canada
  • Jean-Guy Pilon (born 1930), French Canadian poet
  • George Pirie (1799);1870), newspaper publisher and poet
  • Al Pittman (1940â€"2001), poet and playwright
  • Ted Plantos (1943â€"2001), poet, writer, editor
  • Michel Pleau
  • Emily Pohl-Weary, novelist, poet and magazine editor
  • Craig Poile
  • Sandy Pool
  • B. W. Powe (born 1955), author, poet and academic
  • Claire Pratt (1921â€"1995), artist, poet and editor; daughter of writer and editor Viola Whitney and E. J. Pratt, a poet and academic
  • E. J. Pratt (1882â€"1964), poet and academic
  • Frank Prewett (1893â€"1962), poet and broadcaster, who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom; a war poet of World War I
  • Robert Priest (born 1951), poet and children's author
  • Stefan Psenak (born 1969), French Canadian poet, playwright and novelist
  • Al Purdy (1918â€"2000), writer, editor and poet

Q



  • Andy Quan (born 1969), author who moved to Australia
  • Joseph Quesnel (1746â€"1809), French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright
  • Sina Queyras, poet and academic

R



  • Kenneth Radu
  • Gurcharan Rampuri poet of Punjabi descent who writes in the Punjabi language
  • Theodore Harding Rand (1835â€"1900), educator and poet
  • Ian Iqbal Rashid (born 1971), Canadian/British Muslim poet, screenwriter and filmmaker of Indian descent; has lived primarily in London
  • Angela Rawlings (a.k.a. a.rawlings)
  • Wayne Ray, co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, publisher in London, Ontario
  • James Reaney (1926â€"2008), poet, playwright, and literary critic
  • Michael Redhill (born 1966), American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist
  • D. C. Reid (born 1952), poet, novelist and short story writer
  • Jamie Reid (born 1941)
  • Tracy Repchuk (born 1965), writer, poet and editor; president and founder of the Canadian Federation of Poets; editor of Poetry Canada magazine
  • Shane Rhodes
  • Charles G.D. Roberts (1860â€"1943), poet and prose writer; called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" for his influence on other poets
  • Lisa Robertson (born 1961), poet, essayist and writer
  • Ajmer Rode, poet, playwright and writer in Punjabi and English
  • Gordon Rodgers (born 1952), poet, novelist and clinical psychologist
  • Carmen Rodríguez (born 1948), Chilean-Canadian author, poet, educator, political social activist, co-founder of Aquelarre Magazine; exiled from Chile after the 1973 coup; writes in both Spanish and English and translates her own work
  • Linda Rogers (born 1944), poet and children's writer
  • Joe Rosenblatt (born 1933), Governor General's Award-winning experimentalist.
  • Laisha Rosnau (born 1972), novelist and poet
  • Bruce Ross, poet, author, academic and past president of the Haiku Society of America
  • Stuart Ross (born 1959), writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor
  • W.W.E. Ross (born 1894), imagist poet of the 1920s and 1930s, has been called "Canada's first modern poet."
  • Nancy-Gay Rotstein
  • Stephen Rowe (born 1980)
  • André Roy

S



  • Lake Sagaris (born 1956), journalist, poet and translator living in Chile
  • Trish Salah, academic, writer and poet whose first volume of poetry appeared in 2002
  • Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and prose writer, critic, editor and academic born in England, immigrated to Canada in 1953
  • Charles Sangster (1822â€"1893)
  • Félix-Antoine Savard (1896â€"1982), priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist
  • Jacob Scheier, poet whose first collection of verses won the 2008 Governor General's Award for English poetry; editor; son of Libby Scheier; lives in New York City
  • Libby Scheier (1946â€"2000), United States-born poet and short story writer who moved to Canada in 1975; mother of Jacob Scheier
  • Matthew Schreuder (born 1971), writer and poet living in Australia
  • Andreas Schroeder (born 1946), German-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
  • Stephen Scobie (born 1943), poet, critic, and academic
  • Gregory Scofield
  • Duncan Campbell Scott (1862â€"1947), poet and writer
  • F. R. Scott, also known as Frank Scott (1899â€"1985), poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
  • Peter Dale Scott (born 1929), poet and academic
  • Olive Senior (born 1941), Jamaican poet and short story writer living in Canada
  • Robert W. Service (1874â€"1958), poet and writer
  • Kathy Shaidle (born 1964), author, columnist and poet
  • Francis Sherman (1871â€"1926)
  • Joseph Sherman (1945â€"2006), poet and visual arts editor
  • Carol Shields (1935â€"2003), American-born Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and writer
  • Trish Shields, poet and novelist
  • Sandy Shreve, poet, newspaper reporter and office worker
  • Goran Simic (born 1952), Bosnian-born poet, playwright and short-story writer living in Canada since 1995
  • Melanie Siebert
  • Bren Simmers
  • Anne Simpson (born 1956), poet and novelist
  • Sue Sinclair
  • George Sipos
  • Sonja Skarstedt (born 1960), poet, short-story writer, playwright, painter and illustrator who founded and edited the now-defunct literary magazine Zymergy (1987â€"1991), and founded Empyreal Press in 1990
  • Robin Skelton, sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Georges Zuk", a purported French surrealist (born 1925â€"1997), British-born Canadian academic, writer, poet, translator and anthologist who immigrated to Canada in 1963; a founder and editor of The Mahalat Review
  • Daniel Sloate (1931â€"2009), translator, poet, playwright and academic
  • Carolyn Smart (born 1952), English-born poet, author and academic
  • Elizabeth Smart (1913â€"1986), poet and novelist whose book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with English poet George Barker
  • A. J. M. Smith (1902â€"1980), poet and academic
  • Douglas Burnet Smith (born 1949)
  • John Smith (born 1927), poet and academic
  • Michael V. Smith novelist, poet and filmmaker
  • Ron Smith (born 1943), poet, author, editor, playwright, and former academic; founder and co-publisher of Oolichan Books in 1984; influential in the founding of Theytus Books in 1971
  • Karen Solie (born 1966)
  • John Solomon, writer of erotic poetry books
  • David Solway (born 1941), poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic
  • Madeline Sonik (born 1960), novelist, short-story writer, children's-book author, editor and poet
  • Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1959), poet and editor, living in Montreal, co-founder of Poetry Quebec magazine
  • Raymond Souster(born 1921), poet and (now retired) bank executive
  • Esta Spalding (born 1966), American-born Canadian author, screenwriter and poet
  • Heather Spears (born 1934), poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark since 1962
  • Birk Sproxton (1943â€"2007), poet and novelist
  • Harold Standish (1919â€"1972), poet and novelist
  • George Stanley, American-born poet and academic associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years, moved to Canada in the 1970s; associated with New Star Books and the Capilano Review
  • Carmine Starnino, essayist, educator, and editor
  • John Steffler (born 1947), poet and novelist
  • Ian Stephens (died 1996), journalist, musician and poet associated with the spoken word movement
  • Ricardo Sternberg (born 1948), poet born in Brazil, educated in the United States
  • Richard Stevenson
  • Shannon Stewart
  • W. Gregory Stewart (born 1950), poet, science fiction author, short-story writer who works at a public utility and lives in Los Angeles, California
  • John Stiles, poet living in London, United Kingdom
  • Anne Stone, poet, writer and performance artist
  • Betsy Struthers (born 1951), poet and novelist
  • Andrew Suknaski (1942â€"2012), Saskatchewan poet
  • Alan Sullivan (1868â€"1947), poet, short-story writer, railroad surveyor and mining engineer
  • Rosemary Sullivan (born 1947), poet, biographer, academic and anthologist
  • Moez Surani (born 1979), poet
  • John Sutherland (1919â€"1956), poet, literary critic, and magazine editor who founded and edited First Statement in 1942 and its successor publication, Northern Review in 1945
  • Robert Swanson
  • Robert Sward (born 1933), American and Canadian poet and novelist
  • George Swede (born 1940), Latvian-born Canadian children's writer and poet who writes Haiku in English
  • Todd Swift (born 1966), poet, editor and academic living in the United Kingdom
  • Anne Szumigalski (1922â€"1999)

T



  • Proma Tagore
  • Bruce Taylor (born 1960)
  • Heather Taylor (born 1977), poet, playwright and teacher living in England since 2002
  • Ruth Taylor (1961â€"2006), poet, editor and academic
  • John Terpstra, poet and carpenter
  • Souvankham Thammavongsa
  • Sharon Thesen (born 1946), poet and academic
  • Edward William Thomson (born 1849â€"1924), journalist, writer and poet
  • John Thompson (1938â€"1976)
  • Russell Thornton
  • Matthew Tierney (born 1970)
  • Jose Tlatelpas (born 1953), Mexican native and Canadian resident; Native cultures poet, publisher, and political activist
  • Mohamud Siad Togane (born 1943), Somali native and Canadian resident; poet, academic, and political activist
  • Lola Lemire Tostevin (born 1937), poet, novelist and writer
  • Rhea Tregebov (born 1953), poet and children's writer
  • Raymond D. Tremblay, poet, writer, social services agency official
  • Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972), French-Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant who moved to London, England in 1995
  • Tony Tremblay (born 1968), French-Canadian poet, writer, spoken word artist, journalist and radio personality
  • Peter Trower (born 1930), poet and novelist
  • Mark Truscott(born 1970), born in the United States
  • Élise Turcotte (born 26 June 1957), French-Canadian writer and poet
  • John Tyndall
  • Daniel Scott Tysdal (born 1978)

U



  • Marie Uguay (1955â€"1981), French- Canadian poet
  • Priscilla Uppal (born 1974), poet and novelist
  • David UU (David W. Harris) (1948â€"1994), visual poet

V



  • R. M. Vaughan, poet, novelist and playwright
  • Paul Vermeersch (born 1973)
  • Katherena Vermette
  • Gilles Vigneault (born 1928), Quebec poet, publisher and singer-songwriter; Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist
  • Pamelia Sarah Vining (1826â€"1897)
  • Garth Von Buchholz (also G.A. Buchholz) British Columbia poet, dark fiction author, playwright, journalist and arts critic
  • Prvoslav Vujčić (born 1960)

W



  • Miriam Waddington née Dworkin 1917â€"2004), poet, short story writer and translator
  • Fred Wah (born 1939), poet, novelist, and scholar
  • Bronwen Wallace (1945â€"1989), poet and short story writer
  • Tom Walmsley (born 1948), playwright, novelist, poet and screenwriter
  • Agnes Walsh (born 1950), actor, poet, playwright and storyteller
  • David Waltner-Toews (born 1948), epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, veterinarian, and a specialist in the epidemiology of food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health
  • Terry Watada author, writer, and poet
  • Alison Watt (born 1957), writer, poet and painter
  • Tom Wayman (born 1945), poet and academic
  • Phyllis Webb (born 1927), poet and radio broadcaster
  • John Weier (born 1949)
  • Robert Stanley Weir (1856â€"1926), judge and poet most famous for writing the English lyrics to O Canada, the national anthem of Canada
  • Zachariah Wells (born 1976), poet, critic, essayist and editor
  • Darren Wershler-Henry (born 1966), experimental poet, non-fiction writer and cultural critic
  • David Wevill (born 1935)
  • Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972), singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator and television personality
  • Michael Whelan (born 1858â€"1937) teacher, bookkeeper and poet
  • Zoe Whittall (born 1976), poet and novelist
  • Anne Wilkinson (1910â€"1961) Canadian poet, writer and essayist
  • Alan R. Wilson
  • Sheri-D Wilson, poet and playwright
  • Rob Winger, poet and academic
  • Theresa Wolfwood, political activist and poet
  • George Woodcock (1912â€"1995), poet, essayist, critic, biographer and historiian; the founder (in 1959) of the journal Canadian Literature
  • Lance Woolaver (born 1948) is a Canadian author, poet, playwright and director

Y



  • J. Michael Yates (born 1938), poet and dramatist
  • Leo Yerxa
  • Jean Yoon (born 1962), actor, poet and playwright
  • D'bi Young born in Jamaica, moved to Canada in 1993; dub poet, actor and playwright
  • Ian Young

Z



  • Robert Zend (1929-1985), Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and multi-media artist
  • David Zieroth
  • Rachel Zolf, poet and editor
  • Carolyn Zonailo (born 1947), poet and publisher
  • Jan Zwicky (born 1955), philosopher, poet, essayist, and violinist

See also



  • List of Canadian writers
  • List of poets
  • List of poetry awards
  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature

References





 
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