William Daryl Hine (February 24, 1936 – August 20, 2012) was a Canadian poet and translator.
[1] He graduated from McGill University in 1958 and then studied in Europe, as a Canada Council scholar.
His first chapbook, The Carnal and the Crane, was published as part of Louis Dudek's McGill Poetry Series in 1957.
[9] The poet first came out as gay in his 1975 work In & Out, which was initially available only in a privately printed version in limited circulation.
[10] Following the death of his partner of more than 30 years, the philosopher Samuel Todes, Hine lived in semi-retirement in Evanston, Illinois.