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.

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.