Steven McCabe is a Kansas City, Missouri-born American-Canadian visual artist and poet. He is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Hierarchy of Loss (Ekstasis Editions 2007).
He recently [when?] illustrated a children's book of Victorian Fairy Tales; The Golden Key by George Macdonald (P.D. Meany 2008) with fine-line ink drawings. He has created public murals and exhibited paintings, mixed media and collaborative artworks. He regularly performs public readings of his poetry sharing the stage with dancers, musicians and multimedia presentations featuring his artwork.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker.
George Elliott Clarke, is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known largely for its use of a vast range of literary and artistic traditions, its lush physicality and its bold political substance. One of Canada's most illustrious poets, Clarke is also known for chronicling the experience and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that he has coined "Africadia".
Christopher Dewdney is a prize-winning Canadian poet and essayist. His poetry reflects his interest in natural history. His book Acquainted with the Night, an investigation into darkness was nominated for both the Charles Taylor Prize and the Governor General's Award.
Patricia Kathleen Page, was a British-born Canadian poet, though the citation as she was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada reads "poet, novelist, script writer, playwright, essayist, journalist, librettist, teacher and artist." She was the author of more than 30 published books that include poetry, fiction, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography.
Richard Stevenson is a Canadian teacher and poet. Stevenson teaches English at Lethbridge College in Lethbridge, Alberta and has taught in Western Canada and Nigeria.
Philip Lamantia was an American poet and lecturer. His poems were often visionary, ecstatic, terror-filled, and erotic, exploring the subconscious world of dreams and linking it to daily experiences, while sometimes incorporating typographical arrangements a la concrete poetry. He has posthumously been regarded as "the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation".
Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist.
Roger Nash BA, MA, PhD (Exon) is a Canadian philosopher and poet. He was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England on 3 November 1942. He grew up in England, Egypt, Cyprus, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has a B.A. from the University of Wales (1965), an M.A. from McMaster University (1966) and a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter (1974).
Douglas Grant Lochhead FRSC was a Canadian poet, academic librarian, bibliographer and university professor who published more than 30 collections of poetry over five decades, from 1959 to 2009. He was a founding member and vice-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets and was elected its first secretary in 1968. He served as president of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (1974–76), and was a member of bibliographical societies in the U.S. and Britain. In 1976, he was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Brian Henderson is a Canadian writer, poet, and photographer, whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.
Trevor Carolan is a Canadian writer. He has published 20 books of non-fiction, poetry, fiction, translations and anthologies.
Clarence Major is an American poet, painter, and novelist; winner of the 2015 "Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts", presented by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. He was awarded the 2016 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.
Antonio D'Alfonso is a Canadian writer, editor, publisher, and filmmaker, best known as the founder of Guernica Editions.
Paul Dutton is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist.
Yolande Villemaire is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and poet.
Carolyn Marie Souaid is a Canadian poet, educator, publisher and editor.
Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet.
Susan Elizabeth McCaslin is a Canadian poet and writer.
Paula Claire is a British Poet-Artist, whose work spans the areas of sound, visual, concrete and performance poetry. She was associated with the British Poetry Revival Movement in the 1970s and a member of Konkrete Canticle, a poetry collective founded by Bob Cobbing, which performed works for multiple voices and instruments. She has performed and exhibited her poetry internationally since 1969, creating site-specific performance pieces and using the voice contributions of her audience. She is founder and curator of the Paula Claire Archive: fromWORDtoART - International Poet-Artists, a collected body of work by fellow poet-artists.
Florence Ann McNeil was a Canadian poet, writer, playwright, and professor.
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