Tom Dawe, CM ONL (born October 24, 1940) is a Canadian writer from Newfoundland and Labrador.
Born in Long Pond, Newfoundland, Tom Dawe has written poetry and children's literature for many years.
Tom Dawe was a founding member in 1973 of Breakwater Books, the province's first publishing house.
As an example (like many other events through the years), Dawe successfully led the 2015 holiday CBC audio presentation of The Old Man's Winter Night.
[6] In the 2020 Walrus essay The Poet Who Warns Us Not to Revere the Past, Tom Dawe is said to be "about the difficulty of change" made from his own "disarmingly plain-spoken, quietly perceptive poems".