Local Poets

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Claudia Coutu Radmore
English Local

Claudia Coutu Radmore writes place-rooted, image-rich poetry that moves between memory, landscape, and the quiet lives of natural things.

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David Galvaude
French Local

David Galvaude is a situationist and exploratory poet.

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David O’Meara
English Local

Ottawa's David O'Meara's newest moving collection is Masses on Radar (Coach House, 2021).

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Jennifer Baker
English Local

Jennifer Baker is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to experimental poetics, and her material poetics work will appear in the upcoming Delisted Project

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Lucia Farinon
English Local

Lucia writes poetry and songs exploring childhood, care, and memories that thaw.

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Michel Thérien
French Local Canada

Le poème involontaire is Michel Therien's eleventh collection. 

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Monty Reid
English Local

Monty Reid was born in Saskatchewan, and currently lives in Ottawa.

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Sanita Fejzic
English Local Canada

Playwright, novelist and poet, Sanita Fejzić’s first book of poetry, Refugee Mouth, was published in 2025

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Susan McMaster
English Local

Ottawa poet Susan McMaster has published some 40 books and recordings, and read and performed across Canada.

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Vera Hadzic
English Local

Vera Hadzic is an Ottawa-based poet and author of two poetry collections published in 2023 and 2025.

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