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.^[1] He teaches in the English department at John Abbott College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.^[2]

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.^[1]

His poetry centres on themes of domestic abuse, war trauma, and immigration.^[3] He participated in Dial-A-Poem Montreal 1985–1987.^[4]

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.