List of Canadian Poets - S

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• Lake Sagaris (born 1956), journalist, poet and translator living in Chile
• Trish Salah, academic, writer and poet whose first volume of poetry appeared in 2002
• Peter Sanger (born 1943), poet and prose writer, critic, editor and academic born in England, immigrated to Canada in 1953
• Charles Sangster (1822–1893)
• Félix-Antoine Savard (1896–1982), priest, academic, poet, novelist and folklorist
• Jacob Scheier, poet whose first collection of verses won the 2008 Governor General's Award for English poetry; editor; son of Libby Scheier; lives in New York City
• Libby Scheier (1946–2000), United States-born poet and short story writer who moved to Canada in 1975; mother of Jacob Scheier
• Matthew Schreuder (born 1971), writer and poet living in Australia
• Andreas Schroeder (born 1946), German-born poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer
• Stephen Scobie (born 1943), poet, critic, and academic
• Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947), poet and writer
• Duncan Scott, see Duncan Campbell Scott
• F. R. Scott, also known as Frank Scott (1899–1985), poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
• Peter Dale Scott (born 1929), poet and academic
• Olive Senior (born 1941), Jamaican poet and short story writer living in Canada
• Robert W. Service (1874–1958), poet and writer
• Kathy Shaidle (born 1964), author, columnist and poet
• Francis Sherman (1871–1926)
• Joseph Sherman (1945–2006), poet and visual arts editor
• Carol Shields (1935–2003), American-born Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright and writer
• Trish Shields, poet and novelist
• Sandy Shreve, poet, newspaper reporter and office worker
• Goran Simic (born 1952), Bosnian-born poet, playwright and short-story writer living in Canada since 1995
• Melanie Siebert
• Anne Simpson (born 1956), poet and novelist
• Sue Sinclair
• Sonja Skarstedt (born 1960), poet, short-story writer, playwright, painter and illustrator who founded and edited the now-defunct literary magazine Zymergy (1987–1991), and founded Empyreal Press in 1990
• Robin Skelton, sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Georges Zuk", a purported French surrealist (born 1925–1997), British-born Canadian academic, writer, poet, translator and anthologist who immigrated to Canada in 1963; a founder and editor of The Mahalat Review
• Daniel Sloate (1931–2009), translator, poet, playwright and academic
• Carolyn Smart (born 1952), English-born poet, author and academic
• Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986), poet and novelist whose book, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, detailed her romance with English poet George Barker
• A. J. M. Smith (1902–1980), poet and academic
• Douglas Burnet Smith (born 1949)
• John Smith (born 1927), poet and academic
• Michael V. Smith novelist, poet and filmmaker
• Ron Smith (born 1943), poet, author, editor, playwright, and former academic; founder and co-publisher of Oolichan Books in 1984; influential in the founding of Theytus Books in 1971
• Karen Solie (born 1966)
• John Solomon, writer of erotic poetry books
• David Solway (born 1941), poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic
• Madeline Sonik (born 1960), novelist, short-story writer, children's-book author, editor and poet
• Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1959), poet and editor, living in Montreal, co-founder of Poetry Quebec magazine
• Raymond Souster(born 1921), poet and (now retired) bank executive
• Esta Spalding (born 1966), American-born Canadian author, screenwriter and poet
• Heather Spears (born 1934), poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark since 1962
• Birk Sproxton (1943–2007), poet and novelist
• Harold Standish (1919–1972), poet and novelist
• George Stanley, American-born poet and academic associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years, moved to Canada in the 1970s; associated with New Star Books and the Capilano Review
• Carmine Starnino, essayist, educator, and editor
• John Steffler (born 1947), poet and novelist
• Ian Stephens (died 1996), journalist, musician and poet associated with the spoken word movement
• Ricardo Sternberg (born 1948), poet born in Brazil, educated in the United States
• Richard Stevenson
• Shannon Stewart
• W. Gregory Stewart (born 1950), poet, science fiction author, short-story writer who works at a public utility and lives in Los Angeles, California
• John Stiles, poet living in London, United Kingdom
• Anne Stone, poet, writer and performance artist
• Betsy Struthers (born 1951), poet and novelist
• Andrew Suknaski (1942–2012), Saskatchewan poet
• Alan Sullivan (1868–1947), poet, short-story writer, railroad surveyor and mining engineer
• Rosemary Sullivan (born 1947), poet, biographer, academic and anthologist
• Moez Surani (born 1979), poet
• John Sutherland (1919–1956), poet, literary critic, and magazine editor who founded and edited First Statement in 1942 and its successor publication, Northern Review in 1945
• Robert Swanson
• Robert Sward (born 1933), American and Canadian poet and novelist
• George Swede (born 1940), Latvian-born Canadian children's writer and poet who writes Haiku in English
• Todd Swift (born 1966), poet, editor and academic living in the United Kingdom
• Anne Szumigalski (1922–1999)