Robert Bringhurst (1946—) is a Canadian author and poet who writes about native issues and typography. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Works
Poetry
- The Shipwright's Log – 1972
- Cadastre – 1973
- Eight Objects – 1975
- Bergschrund – 1975
- Tzuhalem's Mountain – 1982
- The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82 – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Tending the Fire – 1985
- The Blue Roofs of Japan – 1986
- Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music – 1986
- Conversations with a Toad – 1987
- The Calling: Selected Poems 1970–1995 – 1995
- Elements (with drawings by Ulf Nilsen ) – 1995
- The Book of Silences – 2001
- Ursa Major – 2003
Prose
- Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada (with Geoffrey James , Russel Keziere & Doris Shadbolt ) – 1983
- Ocean/Paper/Stone – 1984
- The Raven Steals the Light (with Bill Reid) – 1984
- Shovels, Shoes and the Slow Rotation of Letters – 1986
- The Black Canoe (with photographs by Ulli Steltzer ) – 1991
- Boats Is Saintlier than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design – 1997
- Native American Oral Literatures and the Unity of the Humanities – 1998
- A Short History of the Printed Word (with Warren Chappell ) – 1999
- A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World – 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- The Elements of Typographic Style – 1992, revised 1996
- The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning – 2004
Translation
- Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, Nine Visits to the Mythworld – 2000 (nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, Being in Being – 2001
- Parmenides, The Fragments – 2003