Search Location - Any -Canada Sort by RandomDate addedA -> ZZ -> A Apply Jónína Kirton Jónína Kirton, an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet, was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Treaty 1, the traditional lands of the… Sarah Tolmie Sarah Tolmie has loved early English since she was a teenager because of its weirdness. She did degrees in medieval studies at Toronto and Cambridge… Gemma Gorga Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968. She has a PhD in Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she is Professor of Medieval and… William Butler Yeats The first person from Ireland to win the Nobel Prize, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great intellectual figures of the 20th… Anna Laetitia Barbauld English essayist, poet, children’s author, and teacher Anna Laetitia Barbauld was one of the most successful women in letters of her time. She was… Katherine Philips The daughter of a Puritan merchant in London, the Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips (1632-1664) was married at 16 to a man 38 years older that her.… Olive Senior Olive Senior is an award-winning Jamaican poet, novelist, short story and non-fiction writer based in Toronto. She spent her formative years in… Charles Heavysege The Canadian poet Charles Heavysege (1816-1876) was born in England and emigrated to Montreal in 1853. He worked as a woodcarver and later as a… Majzoob Tabrizi Mohammad Majzoob Tabrizi was a seventeenth century Sufi poet and mystic from Tabriz. In poetic style, he was the follower of Hafiz. Tabrizi, a Shiite… Bernard Ferguson Bernard Ferguson (he/him and they/them) is a Bahamian poet, essayist and MFA candidate at New York University. Winner of the 2019 92y Discovery… Rupert Brooke The English poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is remembered for the patriotic poems he wrote during the First World War as well as for his good looks… Aphra Behn The poet and dramatist Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the first English women to become a professional author. Her work often expressed… Load More Language English
