David William McFadden (born October 11, 1940) is a Canadian poet and novelist. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario a first started working there as a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. As he grew more renowned as a poet he quit the newspaper and became a full time writer in 1976. He is currently a professor at York University and lives in Toronto, Ontario. His poetry crtiques the commercialism and shallowness of modern society.

Works:

• Poetry:
  • The Poem Poem
  • Letters from the Earth to the Earth - 1968
  • Poems Worth Knowing - 1971
  • Intense Pleasure - 1972
  • The Ova Yogas - 1972
  • The Poet's Progress - 1977
  • The Saladmaker - 1977
  • I Don't Know - 1978
  • A Knight in Dried Plums - 1978
  • On the Road Again - 1978
  • A New Romance - 1979
  • My Body Was Eaten By Dogs - 1981
  • Country of the Open Heart - 1982
  • Three Stories and Ten Poems - 1982
  • A Pair of Baby Lamds - 1983
  • The Art of Darkness - 1984 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Gypsy Guitar - 1987 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
  • Anonymity Suite - 1992
  • There'll Be Another - 1995

• Fiction
  • The Great Canadian Sonnet - 1974
  • A Trip Around Lake Huron - 1980
  • A Trip Around Lake Erie - 1980
  • Animal Spirits - 1983
  • Canadian Sunset - 1986
  • A Trip Around Lake Ontario - 1988