Cyril Dabydeen was born in Guyana in 1945. He migrated to Canada in 1970. He is the author of almost a dozen collections of poetry, two novels and six collections of short stories.
Novels
Collections
Poems in Recession (poems) (1972)
Distances (poems) (1977)
Goatsong (poems) (1977)
Hearts Frame (poems) (1979)
This Planet Earth (poems) (1979)
Elephants Make Good Stepladders (poems) (1982)
Dark Swirl (poems) (1986)
Islands Lovelier Than a Vision (poems) (1986)
Coastland (poems) (1989)
Jogging in Havana (1992)
Stoning the Wind (poems) (1995)
Born in Amazonia (poems) (1995)
Berbice Crossing (1995)
Black Jesus and Other Stories (1997)
Discussing Columbus (poems) (1997)
My Brahmin Days (2000)
North of the Equator (2001)
Hemisphere of Love (poems) (2003)
Imaginary Origins (poems) (2004)
Play a Song Somebody (2004)
My Multi-Ethnic Friends (2013)
God's Spider (poems) (2014)
My Undiscovered Country (2018)
Distances (poems) (1977)
Goatsong (poems) (1977)
Hearts Frame (poems) (1979)
This Planet Earth (poems) (1979)
Elephants Make Good Stepladders (poems) (1982)
Dark Swirl (poems) (1986)
Islands Lovelier Than a Vision (poems) (1986)
Coastland (poems) (1989)
Jogging in Havana (1992)
Stoning the Wind (poems) (1995)
Born in Amazonia (poems) (1995)
Berbice Crossing (1995)
Black Jesus and Other Stories (1997)
Discussing Columbus (poems) (1997)
My Brahmin Days (2000)
North of the Equator (2001)
Hemisphere of Love (poems) (2003)
Imaginary Origins (poems) (2004)
Play a Song Somebody (2004)
My Multi-Ethnic Friends (2013)
God's Spider (poems) (2014)
My Undiscovered Country (2018)
Anthologies edited