(London / Ontario, 1957) lives in Toronto. Ten collections of his poetry have been published in Canada and his work has been reproduced in Germany, Spain, China, India, Great Britain and the USA, a.o.

Apart from poetry he writes non-fiction, covering a wide range of sciences. His remarkable collection of essays The Immaculate Perception, for example, deals with the sub-conscious, language and dreams. His interest in pre-historic geology, as manifested in his early poems, obviously goes back to his youth. His father was an ethnologist and archeologist who specialised in Indian cave drawings in Ontario.

Christopher Dewdney is puzzled himself by the contrast between his purely empirical non-fiction writing and his poetry riddled with angels, ghosts and demons: `Sometimes I feel like a weird split personality.' This too he may have in common with his father who himself was the rebellious son of an Anglican bishop and a dedicated atheist as such, but who unquestioningly accepted the Indians' spiritualism.

Initially Dewdney was considered an original but rather unapproachable poet. But he seemed to have entered a new stage with his widely acclaimed collection Demon Pond in which he links cosmic awareness and intimate love. The Globe and Mail wrote about these poems: `They have a haunting, stately quality'.