List of Canadian Poets - R

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• Gurcharan Rampuri poet of Punjabi descent who writes in the Punjabi language
• Theodore Harding Rand (1835–1900), educator and poet
• Ian Iqbal Rashid (born 1971), Canadian/British Muslim poet, screenwriter and filmmaker of Indian descent; has lived primarily in London
• Angela Rawlings (a.k.a. a.rawlings)
• Wayne Ray, co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, publisher in London, Ontario
• James Reaney (1926–2008), poet, playwright, and literary critic
• Michael Redhill (born 1966), American-born Canadian poet, playwright and novelist
• D. C. Reid (born 1952), poet, novelist and short story writer
• Jamie Reid (born 1941)
• Tracy Repchuk (born 1965), writer, poet and editor; president and founder of the Canadian Federation of Poets; editor of Poetry Canada magazine
• Shane Rhodes
• Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943), poet and prose writer; called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" for his influence on other poets
• Lisa Robertson (born 1961), poet, essayist and writer
• Ajmer Rode, poet, playwright and writer in Punjabi and English
• Gordon Rodgers (born 1952), poet, novelist and clinical psychologist
• Carmen Rodríguez (born 1948), Chilean-Canadian author, poet, educator, political social activist, co-founder of Aquelarre Magazine; exiled from Chile after the 1973 coup; writes in both Spanish and English and translates her own work
• Linda Rogers (born 1944), poet and children's writer
• Joe Rosenblatt (born 1933), Governor General's Award-winning experimentalist.
• Laisha Rosnau (born 1972), novelist and poet
• Bruce Ross, poet, author, academic and past president of the Haiku Society of America
• Stuart Ross (born 1959), writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor
• W.W.E. Ross (born 1894), imagist poet of 1920s and 1930s, has been called "Canada's first modern poet."
• Stephen Rowe (born 1980)