- Milton Acorn
- Elizabeth Allan
- Joanne Arnott
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Avison
- Bill Bauer
- Henry Beissel
- Earle Birney
- Bill Bissett
- Christian Bok
- Stephanie Bolster
- Roo Borson
- Marilyn Bowering
- Abraham Boyarsky
- Kate Braid
- Jaques Brault
- Diana Brebner
- Robert Bringhurst
- Nicole Brossard
- Anne Carson
- Hilary Clark
- Leonard Cohen
- Karen Connelly
- Lorna Crozier
- Frank Davey
- Barry Dempster
- Christopher Dewdney
- Kildare Dobbs
- Don Domanski
- Candas Dorsey
- Marilyn Dumont
- Brian Fawcett
- Joan Fern Shaw
- Judith Fitzgerald
- Patrick Friesen
- Jacques Godbout
- Leona Gom
- Beth Goobie
- Phyllis Gotlieb
- Neile Graham
- Ralph Gustafson
- Genni Gunn
- Claire Harris
- Diana Hartog
- Elisabeth Harvor
- Steven Heighton
- Robert Hilles
- Cornelia Hoogland
- Bruce Hunter
- Catherine Hunter
- Maureen Hynes
- Paulette Jiles
- Surjeet Kalsey
- Smaro Kamboureli
- Lionel Kearns
- Barbara Klar
- Sarah Klassen
- Joy Kogawa
- Tim Lander
- M. Travis Lane
- Patrick Lane
- Evelyn Lau
- Irving Layton
- Dennis Lee
- Shawna Lemay
- John Lent
- Gwendolyn MacEwen
- Hugh MacDonald
- Jay MacPherson
- Keith Maillard
- Daphne Marlatt
- David Margoshes
- Nicole Markotic
- Steve McCaffery
- David McFadden
- Don McKay
- Susan McMaster
- Anne Michaels
- Roy Miki
- Kim Morrisse
- Colin Morton
- Daniel David Moses
- Erin Mouré
- Rona Murray
- Susan Musgrave
- B.P. Nichol
- Barbara Nickel
- John Newlove
- Michael Ondaatje
- P.K. Page
- E.J. Pratt
- Al Purdy
- James Reaney
- Anne Simpson
- Mark Sinnett
- Karen Solie
- Esta Spalding
- Heather Spears
- Raymond Souster
- Rosemary Sullivan
- Sharon Thesen
- Rhea Tregebov
- Bronwen Wallace
- Miriam Waddington
- Phyllis Webb
- Patricia Young
See also: List of Canadian writers, List of poets