Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor atYork University. He currently holds theDavid Gray Chair at theUniversity at Buffalo, The State University of New York.^[1] McCaffery was born inSheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attendingUniversity of Hull.

He moved toToronto in 1968. In 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poetsRafael Barreto-Rivera,Paul Dutton, andbpNichol, forming thesound-poetry group,The Four Horsemen. Some of McCaffery's poetry attempts to break language from the logic ofsyntax and structure to create a purely emotional response.^[2] He has created three-dimensional structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in collaboration with other poets.^[3]

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• Carnival – 1967–1975^[4]
• postmark canadada – 1970
• Ground Plans for a Speaking City - 1970
• Transitions To The Beast – 1970
• Maps – 1971
• Collborations (with bpNichol) – 1972
• Broken Mandala – 1974
• Dr. Sadhu's Muffins – 1974
• Ow's Waif – 1975
• from The Abstract Ruin – 1976
• Shifters – 1976
• The Story So Four (edited with bpNichol)
• Crown's Creek (with Steven Smith) – 1978
• Research on the Mouth – 1978 (cassette)
• Wot We Wukkers Want – 1978 (cassette)
• Sound Poetry: A Catalogue (edited with bpNichol) – 1978; reprinted 2010
• Intimate Distortions – 1979
• In England Nw That Spring (with bpNichol) – 1979; reprinted 1984
• Canadian Pataphysics (edited with bpNichol) – 1980; reprinted 2000
• The Perseus Project: Paleogorgonization and the Sexual Life of Fossils – 1981
• Manicured Noise (with Richard Truhlar) – 1981 (cassette)
• Avoiding the Beautiful (with Whitney Smith) – 1982
• Knowledge Never Knew – 1983
• Panopticon – 1984
• North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973–1986 – 1986
• Evoba – 1987
• The Black Debt – 1989
• Theory of Sediment – 1991 (nominated for aGovernor General's Award)
• McCaffery, Steve &bpNichol (1992).Rational geomancy : the kids of the book-machine : the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group, 1973-1982. Vancouver: Talonbooks.
• The Cheat of Words – 1996
• Seven Pages Missing – 2000 (nominated for aGovernor General's Award)
• Imagining Language (edited with Jed Rasula) – 2001
• Prior to Meaning: The Protosematic and Poetics – 2001
• The Basho Variations – 2007
• Language to Cover a Wall (edited with Michael Basinski & Karen Mac Cormack) – 2011
• Tatterdemalion: A Sketch-Book for Syntax - 2014
• Pataphonix: Selected Sound Poems - 2019 (CD)
• Carnival: The Complete Edition - 2021

• Nada Canadada – 1972 (vinyl LP); reïssued 1977 (cassette); reïssued 2018 (vinyl LP)
• Horse d'Oeuvres - 1975 (book)
• Live In The West – 1977 (vinyl LP)
• A Little Nastiness – 1980 (book)
• Bootleg – 1981 (cassette)
• The Prose Tattoo – 1983 (book)
• 2 Nights – 1988 (cassette)

Rational geomancy

• Mann, Paul (Spring 1994). "A poetics of its own occasion".Contemporary Literature.35 (1):171–181.doi:10.2307/1208741.JSTOR 1208741.

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