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