Steve McCaffery
Steven McCaffery (born
January 24,
1947) is a
Canadian poet and
scholar who is a professor at
York University. McCaffery was born in
Sheffield,
England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Canada to attend graduate school at
York University in
Toronto. In Toronto he met other poets of the era and in
1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and
B. P. Nichol, forming the sound-poetry group The Four Horsemen. McCaeffery's poetry attemps to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimension structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in colaboration with other poets.
Works:
See also:
List of Canadian writers,
List of Canadian poets