List of Canadian Poets - M

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• Rozena Maart (born 1962), poet, short-story writer, novelist, playwright, academic and psychotherapist; South African living in Canada
• Karen Mac Cormack (born 1956), 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
• Bernell MacDonald (born 1948)
• Hugh MacDonald (born 1945), poet, children's writer and editor
• Wilson MacDonald (1880–1967)
• Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941–1987), novelist and poet
• Walter Scott MacFarlane (1896–1979), poet and soldier
• Tom MacInnes (1867–1951), poet and writer
• Bob MacKenzie (born 1947), poet, performer (spoken word with music), arts reviewer and commentator, also published as R. D. MacKenzie
• Andrea MacPherson, poet and novelist
• Jay Macpherson (born 13 June 1931), poet and academic (a woman)*
• Camille Martin (born 1956), American-born poet, translator, academic and collage artist living in Toronto since 2005
• Keith Maillard(born 28 February 1942), author and poet
• Charles Mair (1838 or 1840–1927), poet and political activist
• Robert Majzels (born 1950), novelist, poet, playwright and translator
• Alice Major, contemporary poet
• Kim Maltman (born 1951), poet and physicist (a man)
• Eli Mandel (1922–1992), poet, essayist and academic
• Ahdri Zhina Mandiela (born 1953 Jamaican-born dub poet, theatre producer, and artistic director; Jamaican native living in Canada
• David Manicom (born 1960), diplomat, poet and novelist
• Lee Maracle(born 1950), Native American poet and author
• Nicole Markotic, poet and novelist
• Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle (born 1942)
• Tom Marshall (1938–1993), Canadian poet and novelist
• Camille Martin (born 1956), poet and collage artist
• Robin Mathews (born 1931), Canadian poet and professor, known for his political activism against United States foreign policy
• Seymour Mayne (born 1944), poet and literary translator
• Chandra Mayor (born 1973), poet and novelist
• Robert McBride (1811 or 1812–1895), Irish-born Canadian poet
• Steven McCabe, contemporary artist and poet
• Steve McCaffery (born 1947), poet and academic born in England and moved to Toronto in 1968; husband of poet Karen MacCormack
• John McCrae (1872–1918), 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 (born 1937), is a poet and busker (street performer)
• David McFadden (born 11 October 1940), poet, fiction writer, and travel writer
• Wendy McGrath, poet and novelist
• David McGimpsey, poet, humorist and academic
• Nadine McInnis (born 1956), poet, short-story writer and essayist
• James McIntyre (1828–1906), called "The Cheese Poet"
• Don McKay (born 1942), poet, editor, and educator
• Barry McKinnon (born 1944)
• Brendan McLeod (born 1979), poet, novelist, member of The Fugitives.
• Susan McMaster (born 1950), poet, literary editor, and spoken word performer
• Steve McOrmond (born 1957), poet and academic
• Mary Melfi (born 1951), Italian-born poet, novelist and playwright who immigrated to Canada as a young child
• Bruce Meyer (born 1957), poet and academic
• Pauline Michel novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter and screenwriter
• Anne Michaels (born 1958), poet and novelist
• Roy Miki (born 1942), poet and academic
• Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004)
• Gaston Miron (1928–1996), French Canadian poet, writer, and editor
• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), Primarily an author, but also a poet from PEI.
• Marion E. Moodie (1867–1958), nurse, botanist and poet
• Susanna Moodie (1803–1885), British-born Canadian author and poet
• Jacob McArthur Mooney (born 1983)
• Pamela Mordecai (born 1942), Jamaican writer, teacher, scholar and poet living in Canada since 1994
• Pierre Morency (born 1942), French Canadian writer, poet and playwright
• Dwayne Morgan spoken word artist, motivational speaker, event organizer and poet
• Jeffrey Morgan (born 19??), Primarily a writer, but with poetry published in Rolling Stone and Bakka Magazine.
• Kim Morrissey (born 1955), poet and playwright
• Colin Morton (born 1948)
• A. F. Moritz (born 1947), poet and academic
• Daniel David Moses (born 1952), Native American Canadian poet and playwright
• Erin Mouré (born 1955)
• William Murdoch (1823–1887), 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 (born 1951), poet and children's writer
• Jane Musoke-Nteyafas (born c. 1976), poet, writer, visual artist, columnist and playwright