Raymond Filip

Raymond Filip (born 1950) is a Lithuanian-Canadian poet and writer who was born in a displaced persons camp in Lübeck, Germany after World War II. He teaches in the English department at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

He is the author of six collections of poetry and one collection of prose. His work has been included in major anthologies: The Penguin Treasury of Canadian Popular Songs and Poems edited by John Robert Colombo (Penguin 2002); The New Canadian Poets 1970-1985 edited by Dennis Lee (McClelland & Stewart 1985); and Canadian Poets of the 80s edited by Ken Norris (House of Anansi 1983). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Lithuanian. He participated in Dial-A-Poem Montreal 1985–1987.

Publications

Poetry

Flowers in Magnetic Fields. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 1994. Backscatter: New and Selected Poems. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2001. Rivers Applaud Forever. Toronto, ON: Guernica Editions, 2019. Six Poems. Montreal, QC: League of Canadian Poets, 1988. Hope’s Half-Life: Nuclear Poems. Montreal, QC: Véhicule Press, 1983. Somebody Told Me I Look Like Everyman. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1978.

Prose After the Fireworks. Montreal, QC: Guernica Editions, 1989.