List of Canadian poets

A

• Mark Abley, poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer.
• Milton Acorn, poet, writer, and playwright
• José Acquelin
• Gil Adamson, novelist, poet, and short-story writer
• Marie-Célie Agnant, Haitian native living in Canada since 1970; novelist, poet and writer of children's books
• Neil Aitken, poet, editor, and translator
• Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Anishinaabe writer and poet from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, founder of Kegedonce Press, specializing in indigenous writers
• Donald Alarie, writer, poet, and teacher
• Edna Alford, editor, author, and poet who co-founded the magazine Dandelion
• Sandra Alland, Scottish-Canadian writer, multimedia artist, bookseller, small press publisher, and activist
• Donna Allard, editor and poet
• Lillian Allen, dub poet
• Anne-Marie Alonzo, playwright, poet, novelist, critic, and publisher, born in Egypt and moved to Canada at the age of 12
• George Amabile
• Madhur Anand, poet and scientist
• Marguerite Andersen, German-born, primarily francophone writer, academic and editor
• Patrick Anderson, English-born Canadian poet and academic
• Rod Anderson, poet, musician, and accountant
• Michael Andre, poet, critic, and editor living in the United States
• Jeannette Armstrong, Syilx Okanagan author, educator, artist, and activist
• Tammy Armstrong
• David Arnason, author and poet
• Joanne Arnott, Métis poet, essayist, and activist writer
• Margaret Atwood, poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist, and activist
• Charlotte Aubin
• Martine Audet
• Oana Avasilichioaei, poet and translator
• Margaret Avison

  B

• Ken Babstock
• Elizabeth Bachinsky
• Alfred Bailey, poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator
• Jacob Bailey, Church of England clergyman and poet born in the United States, immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1779
• Marie Annharte Baker is an Anishnabe poet and author
• Chris Banks
• Kaushalya Bannerji, Indian-born poet
• Frances Bannerman, painter and poet
• Joelle Barron
• John Barton
• Gary Barwin, author, composer, children's writer, and poet
• Jalal Barzanji, Kurdish poet and writer living in Canada since 1998
• Shaunt Basmajian, poet and author
• Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo ), Ivoirian born poet and journalist
• Bill Bauer, American-born, living in Canada since 1965, husband of Nancy Bauer
• Nancy Bauer, American-born, living in Canada since 1965, wife of Bill Bauer
• Doug Beardsley, poet and academic
• Nérée Beauchemin, francophone poet and physician
• Derek Beaulieu, poet, publisher, and anthologist.
• Joseph-Isidore Bédard, poet, lawyer, and politician
• Ven Begamudré, Indian-born poet, short-story writer, novelist, and academic
• Henry Beissel, poet, author, writer, and editor
• Billy-Ray Belcourt
• Ken Belford
• Lesley Belleau
• Marlène Belley,
• John Bemrose, arts journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright
• Gwen Benaway
• Robbie Benoit, poet and writer
• Jovette Bernier, Quebec poet, novelist, and journalist
• Jean-Philippe Bergeron, francophone writer and poet
• Craven Langstroth Betts, author and poet
• Navtej Bharati, Indian-born poet and writer in Punjabi and English, publisher of Third Eye Press
• Robert Billings, poet and editor
• Earle Birney
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• Mark Blagrave, writer, short-story writer, playwright, poet, and academic
• Robin Blaser, author and poet
• Laurie Block, poet and educator
• E. D. Blodgett, poet, literary critic, and translator
• Ali Blythe, poet and editor
• Robert Boates
• Christian Bök,, poet and author
• Stephanie Bolster, poet and academic
• Shane Book
• Roo Borson pen name of Ruth Elizabeth Borson, American native living in Canada
• Hédi Bouraoui, Tunisian-born Canadian poet, novelist, and academic
• Arthur Bourinot, poet and lawyer
• George Bowering, novelist, poet, historian, and biographer
• Marilyn Bowering, poet, novelist, and playwright
• Tim Bowling, poet and novelist
• Alex Boyd, poet, fiction writer, critic, essayist, and editor
• Kate Braid, poet and teacher
• Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer, and short-story writer
• Shannon Bramer, poet and teacher
• Dionne Brand, poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to Canada
• Di Brandt née "Diana Ruth Janzen", poet and literary critic
• Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet and translator
• Diana Brebner
• Brian Brett, poet and novelist
• Elizabeth Brewster, poet and academic
• Robert Bringhurst, poet, typographer, and author
• David Bromige, Canadian poet living in the United States since 1962
• Nicole Brossard, francophone poet and novelist
• Audrey Alexandra Brown
• Ronnie R. Brown, United States-born living in Canada for most of her adult life
• Charles Tory Bruce, poet, journalist and fiction writer
• Julie Bruck
• Robert Budde, poet, novelist, and academic
• Suzanne Buffam
• April Bulmer
• Murdoch Burnett, poet, performance artist, editor, and community activist
• Mick Burrs
• Aaron Bushkowsky

  C

• Charmaine Cadeau
• Stephen Cain, poet and academic
• Alison Calder, poet and academic
• Frank Oliver Call
• Barry Callaghan, author, poet, and son of the author Morley Callaghan
• Jason Camlot, poet, scholar, and songwriter
• Anne Cameron, novelist, poet, screenwriter, and short-story writer
• George Frederick Cameron, poet, lawyer, and journalist
• Wilfred Campbell, poet and Anglican clergyman
• Natalee Caple, novelist and poet
• Paul Cargnello, Montreal poet, lyricist
• Bliss Carman, poet and critic
• Anne Carson, poet, essayist, translator, and academic
• Kate Cayley, poet, writer, and theatre director
• Weyman Chan
• Catherine Chandler, poet, translator, and academic
• William Chapman, poet, journalist, and bureaucrat
• Jean Charbonneau, francophone poet who was the primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
• Herménégilde Chiasson, Acadian poet, playwright, journalist, academic, and the Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick
• Robert Choquette, novelist, poet, and briefly a diplomat
• Lesley Choyce, 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, poet and university writing teacher
• Evie Christie
• Chuan Sha, Chinese-born Canadian poet and author
• Dave Clark, musician and poet
• George Elliott Clarke, poet and playwright.
• Wayne Clifford
• Fred Cogswell
• Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist
• Matt Cohen,, writer and poet
• Victor Coleman
• Don Coles, poet, author, and academic
• Stephen Collis
• John Robert Colombo, poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, and humorist
• Anne Compton, poet, critic, and anthologist
• Wayde Compton, poet, writer, turntable-based "sound poetry" performer, academic who co-founded Commodore Books, the first black-oriented press in Western Canada
• Jan Conn, Canadian-born geneticist and poet living in the United States
• Karen Connelly, writer and poet
• Kevin Connolly, poet, writer, and critic
• Dennis Cooley, poet and academic
• Afua Cooper, Jamaican-born historian and dub poet
• Judith Copithorne, concrete and visual poet
• Paulo da Costa Canadian-Portuguese author, editor, and translator
• Sonia Cotten, poet
• Dani Couture, poet, essayist, critic, and journalist
• Thomas Cowherd, tinsmith and poet
• Isabella Valancy Crawford, poet, novelist, and short-story writer
• Octave Crémazie, francophone poet who has been called "the father of French-Canadian poetry" for his patriotic verse
• Lynn Crosbie, poet and novelist
• Lorna Crozier writes under the name Lorna Uher
• Michael Crummey, poet and writer
• Julie Crysler, journalist and poet
• Nancy Jo Cullen, poet and short story writer
• Jen Currin, United States-born poet
• Kayla Czaga

  D

• Cyril Dabydeen, native Guyana poet and writer living in Canada
• Kalli Dakos, children's poet and teacher
• Mary Dalton, poet and academic
• Joseph A. Dandurand, Native American poet, playwright, and archaeologist
• Jean-Paul Daoust
• Beverley Daurio
• Frank Davey, poet and academic
• Nicholas Flood Davin, lawyer, journalist, politician, and poet
• Tanya Davis, spoken word poet and musician
• Tom Dawe, writer, poet, children's book author, and artist
• Adriana de Barros, Portuguese native who moved to Canada at age 3; illustrator, web designer, and poet
• Sadiqa de Meijer
• James Deahl, 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, poet and novelist
• Joe Denham
• Michelle Desbarats
• Anne-Marie Desmeules
• Christopher Dewdney, poet, writer, artist, creative-writing teacher, and writer-in-residence at various universities
• Ann Diamond, an award-winning Montreal poet, novelist, and short-story writer
• Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Italian-born, Canadian poet and priest
• Mary di Michele, Italian-born, Canadian poet, author, and creative-writing teacher
• Adam Dickinson
• Robert Dickson, poet, translator, and academic
• Kildare Dobbs, Indian-born teacher, poet, editor, short-story writer, and travel writer who moved to Canada in 1950
• Jeramy Dodds
• Don Domanski
• Magie Dominic, poet and artist
• Jeffery Donaldson, poet and critic
• David Donnell, poet and writer
• Candas Dorsey, poet and science fiction novelist
• Clive Doucet, writer, poet, and politician
• Gordon Downie, songwriter, poet, and musician
• Orville Lloyd Douglas, poet and writer
• Stan Dragland
• William Henry Drummond, Irish-born Canadian poet
• Louis Dudek, poet, literary critic and publisher
• Marilyn Dumont
• Klara du Plessis

  E

• Evelyn Eaton, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and academic
• Vic Elias, American-born, living in Canada from 1979, poet and academic
• David Elliott, poet and academic
• Rebecca Elson, Canadian-American astronomer, academic writer, and poet
• Crispin Elsted
• Karen Enns
• Reuben Epp teacher, school administrator, writer and poet in Plautdietsch
• Michael Estok

  F

• Margaret Fairley, English-born Canadian writer, educator and political activist
• Brian Fawcett, poet, novelist, nonfiction author and writer
• Charles Fenerty, poet, journalist, and inventor. Published two poems in book format in 1855 and 1866, and wrote over 32 poems.
• Ferron, born Debby Foisy, folk singer, songwriter and poet
• George Fetherling, wrote as "Doug Feathering" or "Douglas Fetherling" until 1999 when he began using his middle name, American-born poet, novelist, journalist and essayist who moved to Canada at age 18 and became a Canadian citizen
• Connie Fife
• Robert Finch, poet and academic whose area of expertise was French poetry
• Joan Finnigan, writer, poet, teacher and newspaper reporter
• Jon Paul Fiorentino, poet, novelist, short-story writer, academic and editor of Matrix magazine
• Judith Fitzgerald, poet and journalist
• Robert Ford, poet, translator and diplomat
• Raymond Fraser, novelist, poet, biographer, essayist and editor
• Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet, politician, playwright and short-story writer
• Patrick Friesen, poet and university-level creative writing teacher
• Mark Frutkin, American-born novelist and poet who moved to Canada in 1970 as a Vietnam War draft resister

  G

• François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian notary, poet, civil servant, and historian
• Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, first modernist French Canadian poet
• Bill Gaston, novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and poet
• Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, French Canadian poet and novelist
• Marty Gervais, poet, photographer, professor, journalist, and publisher of Black Moss Press
• Elsa Gidlow
• Angus Morrison Gidney, educator, poet, and journalist
• Gerry Gilbert
• Charles Ignace Adélard Gill, painter and poet
• John Glassco, poet, memoirist, and novelist
• Jacques Godbout, novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker, and poet
• Gérald Godin, French Canadian poet and politician
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Leona Gom, novelist and poet
• Katherine L. Gordon
• Phyllis Gotlieb, science fiction novelist and poet
• Nora Gould
• Sue Goyette, poet and novelist
• Neile Graham, poet and academic
• Alain Grandbois, French Canadian poet
• Richard Greene
• Leslie Greentree, poet, short-story writer, and freelance writer
• Ralph Gustafson, poet and academic
• Genni Gunn, novelist, poet, and translator
• Kristjana Gunnars, Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist

  H

• Paul Haines, poet and jazz lyricist, born in the United States and later a Canadian resident
• Helen Hajnoczky, visual poet
• Phil Hall, poet, academic, and publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under the Flat Singles Press imprint since 1976
• Jane Eaton Hamilton, short-story writer, poet, and photographer
• Claire Harris
• Michael Harris
• Richard Harrison
• Paul Hartal, painter and poet, born in Hungary
• Jill Hartman, poet and editor
• Diana Hartog
• Elisabeth Harvor , novelist and poet
• Robert Hayman, poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
• Charles Heavysege
• Anne Hébert, French-Canadian novelist and poet
• Allison Hedge Coke 1958), poet, writer, artist, activist, and academic
• Wilfrid Heighington, soldier, writer, poet, lawyer, and politician
• Steven Heighton, novelist and poet
• David Helwig, poet, novelist, and essayist; father of Maggie Helwig
• Maggie Helwig, poet, novelist, peace and human rights activist; daughter of David Helwig
• Brian Henderson, poet, academic, and editor
• Benjamin Hertwig
• Robert Hilles, poet and novelist
• Susan Holbrook
• Clive Holden
• Nancy Holmes
• Cornelia Hoogland, poet and academic
• Leah Horlick
• Sean Horlor poet, former speechwriter, freelance writing consultant
• Karen Houle
• Liz Howard
• Harry Howith
• Ray Hsu, poet and academic
• Helen Humphreys, poet and novelist
• Al Hunter poet, author, tribal leader, and activist
• Aislinn Hunter, poet and author
• Bruce Hunter, teacher, poet, fiction writer, and lifewriter
• Catherine Hunter, poet, novelist, editor, academic, and critic
• Chris Hutchinson
• Douglas Smith Huyghue, Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist
• Maureen Hynes, poet

  I

• Susan Ioannou
• Frances Itani, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist

  J

• Suzanne Jacob, novelist, poet, playwright, singer-songwriter, and critic
• Jemeni
• Paulette Jiles, American-born poet and novelist who moved to Canada in 1969
• Rita Joe, Mi'kmaq-Canadian poet and songwriter, called the "poet laureate of the Mi'kmaq people"
• Reg Johanson, composition and literature instructor, poet and essayist
• E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake"
• D. G. Jones, poet, translator, and educator
• El Jones
• Julie Joosten
• Eve Joseph, 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
• Adeena Karasick, poet and academic
• Rupi Kaur – poet and illustrator
• Lionel Kearns, poet and teacher
• Diane Keating
• Kaie Kellough
• M. T. Kelly, novelist, poet, and playwright.
• Penn Kemp, novelist, playwright, poet and sound poet
• Leo Kennedy, modernist poet, published in the 1930s
• Robert Kirkland Kernighan, poet, journalist, and farmer
• Roy Kiyooka, photographer, poet, and artist
• Barbara Klar
• Johann Peter Klassen, Russian Mennonite poet and writer who immigrated to Canada in 1923 and wrote primarily in German
• Sarah Klassen, poet and fiction writer
• A. M. Klein, poet, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer
• Raymond Knister, novelist, short-story writer, poet, critic, and journalist
• Joy Kogawa, poet and novelist
• Maka Kotto, Cameroon-born francophone Canadian, provincial level politician, former Canadian House of Commons member who published a book of poetry in 2002
• Shane Koyczan, spoken word poet
• Robert Kroetsch ), novelist, poet, non-fiction writer, and academic
• Janice Kulyk Keefer, novelist, poet, and academic

  L

• Sonnet L'Abbé, poet and critic
• Pierre Labrie, French Canadian poet
• Edward A. Lacey
• Ben Ladouceur
• Dany Laferrière, Haitian-born francophone novelist, journalist, and poet who moved to Canada in 1976
• Annie Lafleur
• Catherine Lalonde, French Canadian poet and journalist
• Archibald Lampman
• Tim Lander
• Patrick Lane
• M. Travis Lane, American-born Canadian poet who moved to Canada in 1960
• Rina Lasnier, French Canadian poet and playwright
• Evelyn Lau, poet and novelist
• Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
• Irving Layton
• Gérald Leblanc, French Canadian poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, and writer
• Félix Leclerc, songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, actor, radio announcer, radio scriptwriter, and writer
• Dennis Lee, poet, writer and children's fiction author
• John B. Lee, author, poet, and academic
• Lily Alice Lefevre
• Sylvia Legris
• John Lent, poet and novelist
• Douglas LePan, diplomat, poet, novelist, and academic
• Alex Leslie
• Tess Liem
• Tim Lilburn, poet and essayist
• Charles Lillard, poet and historian
• Dorothy Livesay
• Billie Livingston, novelist and poet
• Douglas Lochhead, poet, librarian, and academic
• Jennifer LoveGrove
• Pat Lowther
• Laura Lush
• Richard Lush
• Michael Lynch

  M

• Rozena Maart, poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, academic, and psychotherapist; South African living in Canada
• Kathy Mac
• Karen Mac Cormack, 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
• Alma Frances McCollum, poet and composer
• Hugh MacDonald, poet, children's writer and editor
• Wilson MacDonald
• Gwendolyn MacEwen, novelist and poet
• Walter Scott MacFarlane, poet and soldier
• Tom MacInnes, poet and writer
• Andrea MacPherson, poet and novelist
• Jay Macpherson, poet and academic *
• Keith Maillard, author and poet
• Charles Mair, poet and political activist
• Robert Majzels, novelist, poet, playwright, and translator
• Alice Major, contemporary poet
• Kim Maltman, poet and physicist
• Donato Mancini
• Eli Mandel, poet, essayist, and academic
• Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Jamaican-born dub poet, theatre producer, and artistic director; Jamaican native living in Canada
• David Manicom, diplomat, poet, and novelist
• Lee Maracle, Native American poet and author
• Blaine Marchand
• Nicole Markotic, poet and novelist
• Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle
• Tom Marshall, Canadian poet and novelist
• Émile Martel
• Garth Martens
• Camille Martin, poet and collage artist
• Sid Marty, poet, author, and musician
• Robin Mathews, poet and professor, known for his political activism in support of Canadian independence from U.S. domination
• Seymour Mayne, poet and literary translator
• Micheline Maylor, poet and academic
• Chandra Mayor, poet and novelist
• Robert McBride, Irish-born Canadian poet
• Steven McCabe, contemporary artist and poet
• Steve McCaffery, poet and academic born in England and moved to Toronto in 1968; husband of poet Karen MacCormack
• Julia McCarthy
• Susan McCaslin, poet and academic
• Kathleen McCracken
• John McCrae, 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, is a poet and busker
• David McFadden, poet, fiction writer, and travel writer
• Wendy McGrath, poet and novelist
• David McGimpsey, poet, humorist, and academic
• Nadine McInnis, poet, short-story writer and essayist
• James McIntyre called The Cheese Poet
• Don McKay poet editor and educator
• Barry McKinnon
• Brendan McLeod poet novelist, member of The Fugitives.
• Susan McMaster poet literary editor and spoken word performer
• Eugene McNamara poet, author and teacher
• Steve McOrmond, poet and academic
• Mary Melfi, Italian-born poet novelist, and playwright who immigrated to Canada as a young child
• Iman Mersal, Egyptian-born Egyptian/Canadian poet and professor of Arabic literature
• Bruce Meyer, poet and academic
• Pauline Michel novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter
• Anne Michaels poet and novelist
• Marianne Micros
• Roy Miki poet and academic
• Kenneth G. Mills
• Roswell George Mills
• Gaston Miron, French Canadian poet writer and editor
• Lucy Maud Montgomery, Primarily an author, but also a poet from PEI.
• Marion E. Moodie, nurse, botanist, and poet
• Susanna Moodie, British-born Canadian author and poet
• Jacob McArthur Mooney
• Pamela Mordecai, Jamaican writer, teacher, scholar, and poet living in Canada since 1994
• Pierre Morency, French Canadian writer, poet, and playwright
• Dwayne Morgan spoken word artist, motivational speaker, event organizer, and poet
• Jeffrey Morgan, primarily a writer, but with poetry published in Rolling Stone and Bakka Magazine.
• Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright
• Colin Morton
• A. F. Moritz, poet and academic
• Garry Thomas Morse
• Daniel David Moses, Native American Canadian poet and playwright
• Erin Mouré
• Jane Munro
• Sachiko Murakami
• William Murdoch, 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, poet and children's writer

  N

• Akhtar Naraghi
• Roger Nash, English-born philosopher, poet, and academic
• Lyle Neff, poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
• Lorri Neilsen Glenn, poet, ethnographer, essayist, and academic
• Émile Nelligan, francophone poet from Quebec
• Holly Nelson, writer, poet, activist, journalist, leader of the Green Party of Manitoba
• Pierre Nepveu, French Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist
• W. H. New, poet, editor, and literary critic
• bpNichol Barrie Phillip Nichol, who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces, poet and writer
• Cecily Nicholson
• Emilia Nielsen
• John Newlove
• Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist

  O

• Patrick O'Connell
• Alexandra Oliver
• Sheree-Lee Olson, novelist, poet, and journalist
• Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan novelist and poet with Canadian citizenship
• Heather O'Neill, novelist, poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist
• Fernand Ouellette
• Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, French-Canadian writer, novelist, essayist, and poet
• Richard Outram, poet and writer; co-founder with his wife, Barbara Howard, of The Gauntlet Press
• Catherine Owen, poet and musician

  P

• Susan Paddon
• P. K. Page
• Corrado Paina, Italian poet living in Canada since 1987, editorial director of the quarterly magazine ItalyCanada Trade
• Arleen Paré
• Lisa Pasold
• John Pass, 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, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and drummer of the Canadian Rock band Rush
• Soraya Peerbaye
• W. T. Pfefferle, poet, writer, and academic
• M. NourbeSe Philip, poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer
• Ben Phillips, poet, teacher, and publisher
• Alison Pick, poet and novelist
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, American-born poet, spoken-word poet, writer, educator, and social activist living in Canada
• Jean-Guy Pilon, French Canadian poet
• Sarah Pinder
• George Pirie, newspaper publisher and poet
• Al Pittman, poet and playwright
• Michel Pleau
• Emily Pohl-Weary, novelist, poet, and magazine editor
• Craig Poile
• Laurent Poliquin, French Canadian poet and academic
• Sandy Pool
• Joël Pourbaix
• B. W. Powe, author, poet, and academic
• Claire Pratt, artist, poet, and editor; daughter of writer and editor Viola Whitney and E. J. Pratt, a poet and academic
• E. J. Pratt, poet and academic
• Frank Prewett, poet and broadcaster, who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom; a war poet of World War I
• Robert Priest, poet and children's author
• Stefan Psenak, French Canadian poet, playwright, and novelist
• Al Purdy, writer, editor, and poet

  Q

• Andy Quan, author who moved to Australia
• Joseph Quesnel, 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, educator and poet
• Ian Iqbal Rashid, Canadian/British Muslim poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker of Indian descent; has lived primarily in London
• Angela Rawlings
• James Reaney, poet, playwright, and literary critic
• Michael Redhill, American-born Canadian poet, playwright, and novelist
• D. C. Reid, poet, novelist, and short-story writer
• Jamie Reid
• Shane Rhodes
• Charles G.D. Roberts, poet and prose writer; called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" for his influence on other poets
• Lisa Robertson, poet, essayist, and writer
• Matt Robinson
• Ajmer Rode, poet, playwright, and writer in Punjabi and English
• Gordon Rodgers, poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist
• Carmen Rodríguez, 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
• Janet Rogers First Nations poet
• Linda Rogers, poet and children's writer
• Joe Rosenblatt, Governor General's Award-winning experimentalist
• Laisha Rosnau, novelist and poet
• Bruce Ross, poet, author, academic, and past president of the Haiku Society of America
• Stuart Ross, writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor
• W.W.E. Ross, imagist poet of the 1920s and 1930s, has been called "Canada's first modern poet"
• Annie Rothwell, writer of paeans to colonial forces during the North-West Rebellion and other imperial wars, she was known among contemporary critics mainly as a war poet.
• Nancy-Gay Rotstein
• Stephen Rowe
• André Roy

  S

• Lake Sagaris, journalist, poet, and translator living in Chile
• Rodney Saint-Éloi
• Trish Salah, academic, writer, and poet whose first volume of poetry appeared in 2002
• Peter Sanger, poet and prose writer, critic, editor, and academic born in England, immigrated to Canada in 1953
• Charles Sangster
• Robyn Sarah
• Félix-Antoine Savard, 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, United States-born poet and short-story writer who moved to Canada in 1975, mother of Jacob Scheier
• Andreas Schroeder, German-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
• Stephen Scobie, poet, critic, and academic
• Gregory Scofield
• Duncan Campbell Scott, poet and writer
• F. R. Scott, also known as Frank Scott, poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
• Jordan Scott
• Peter Dale Scott, poet and academic
• Olive Senior, Jamaican poet and short-story writer living in Canada
• Robert W. Service, poet and writer
• Kathy Shaidle, author, columnist, and poet
• Francis Sherman
• Joseph Sherman, poet and visual arts editor
• Carol Shields, 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, Bosnian-born poet, playwright, and short-story writer living in Canada since 1995
• Melanie Siebert
• Bren Simmers
• Anne Simpson, poet and novelist
• Sue Sinclair
• George Sipos
• Sonja Skarstedt, poet, short-story writer, playwright, painter, and illustrator who founded and edited the now-defunct literary magazine Zymergy, and founded Empyreal Press in 1990
• Robin Skelton, sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Georges Zuk", a purported French surrealist, 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, translator, poet, playwright, and academic
• Carolyn Smart, English-born poet, author and academic
• Elizabeth Smart, 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, poet and academic
• Clara Kathleen Smith, poet and educator
• Douglas Burnet Smith
• John Smith, poet and academic
• Michael V. Smith novelist, poet and filmmaker
• Ron Smith, 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
• Steven Ross Smith, poet, arts journalist, Poet Laureate of Banff, previous Director Literary Arts, Banff Centre
• Karen Solie
• David Solway, poet, educational theorist, travel writer, and literary critic
• Madeline Sonik, novelist, short-story writer, children's-book author, editor, and poet
• Carolyn Marie Souaid, poet and editor, living in Montreal, co-founder of Poetry Quebec magazine
• Raymond Souster, Toronto poet
• Esta Spalding, American-born Canadian author, screenwriter, and poet
• Heather Spears, poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark since 1962
• Birk Sproxton, poet and novelist
• Harold Standish, 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, poet and novelist
• Ian Stephens, journalist, musician, and poet associated with the spoken word movement
• Ricardo Sternberg, poet born in Brazil, educated in the United States
• Richard Stevenson
• Shannon Stewart
• W. Gregory Stewart, 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, poet and novelist
• Andrew Suknaski, Saskatchewan poet
• Alan Sullivan, poet, short-story writer, railroad surveyor, and mining engineer
• Rosemary Sullivan, poet, biographer, academic, and anthologist
• Moez Surani, poet
• John Sutherland, 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, American and Canadian poet and novelist
• George Swede, Latvian-born Canadian children's writer and poet who writes Haiku in English
• Todd Swift, poet, editor, and academic living in the United Kingdom
• Anne Szumigalski

  T

• Proma Tagore
• Bruce Taylor
• Heather Taylor, poet, playwright, and teacher living in England since 2002
• Ruth Taylor, poet, editor, and academic
• John Terpstra, poet and carpenter
• Souvankham Thammavongsa
• Sharon Thesen, poet and academic
• Serge Patrice Thibodeau
• Kai Cheng Thom
• Edward William Thomson, journalist, writer, and poet
• John Thompson
• Russell Thornton
• Matthew Tierney
• Jose Tlatelpas, Mexican native and Canadian resident; Native cultures poet, publisher, and political activist
• Mohamud Siad Togane, Somali native and Canadian resident; poet, academic, and political activist
• Lola Lemire Tostevin, poet, novelist, and writer
• Michaël Trahan
• Kim Trainor, Vancouver poet
• Rhea Tregebov, poet and children's writer
• Raymond D. Tremblay, poet, writer, social services agency official
• Roland Michel Tremblay, French-Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer, and science-fiction consultant who moved to London, England in 1995
• Tony Tremblay, French-Canadian poet, writer, spoken word artist, journalist, and radio personality
• Peter Trower, poet and novelist
• Mark Truscott, born in the United States
• Élise Turcotte, French-Canadian writer and poet
• John Tyndall
• Daniel Scott Tysdal

  U

• Marie Uguay, French-Canadian poet
• Priscila Uppal, poet and novelist
• David UU , visual poet

  V

• Léonise Valois, first French Canadian woman to publish a collection of poetry
• Peter van Toorn
• R. M. Vaughan, poet, novelist, and playwright
• Paul Vermeersch
• Katherena Vermette
• Gilles Vigneault, Quebec poet, publisher, and singer-songwriter; Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist
• Pamelia Sarah Vining
• Garth Von Buchholz British Columbia poet, dark fiction author, playwright, journalist, and arts critic
• Prvoslav Vujčić

  W

• Miriam Waddington née Dworkin 1917–2004), poet, short-story writer, and translator
• Michael Wade
• Fred Wah, poet, novelist, and scholar
• Bronwen Wallace, poet and short-story writer
• Tom Walmsley, playwright, novelist, poet, and screenwriter
• Agnes Walsh, actor, poet, playwright, and storyteller
• David Waltner-Toews, 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, writer, poet, and painter
• Tom Wayman, poet and academic
• Phyllis Webb, poet and radio broadcaster
• John Weier
• Robert Stanley Weir, judge and poet most famous for writing the English lyrics to O Canada, the national anthem of Canada
• Zachariah Wells, poet, critic, essayist, and editor
• Darren Wershler-Henry, experimental poet, non-fiction writer, and cultural critic
• David Wevill
• Dawud Wharnsby, singer-songwriter, poet, performer, educator, and television personality
• Michael Whelan teacher, bookkeeper, and poet
• Joshua Whitehead
• Bruce Whiteman, poet, writer, scholar, and essayist.
• Isabella Whiteford,, poet who also write under the name Caed Mille Failtha
• Zoe Whittall, poet and novelist
• Anne Wilkinson, 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, poet, essayist, critic, biographer, and historian; the founder of the journal Canadian Literature
• Lance Woolaver, author, poet, playwright, and director

  Y

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

  Z

• Robert Zend, Hungarian-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and multi-media artist
• David Zieroth
• Rachel Zolf, poet and editor
• Daniel Zomparelli
• Carolyn Zonailo, poet and publisher
• Jan Zwicky, philosopher, poet, essayist, and violinist