Steve McCaffery


Stephen McCaffery is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the David Gray Chair at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull.
He moved to Toronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and bpNichol, forming the sound-poetry group, The Four Horsemen. Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.

with Four Horsemen (Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, Steve McCaffery, bpNichol)

  • Nada Canadada – 1972 ; reïssued 1977 ; reïssued 2018
  • Horse d'Oeuvres - 1975
  • Live In The West – 1977
  • A Little Nastiness – 1980
  • Bootleg – 1981
  • The Prose Tattoo – 1983
  • 2 Nights – 1988

    Critical studies and reviews of McCaffery's work

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