John Pass (born 1947 in Sheffield, England) is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia.
He has published 19 books of poetry since 1971. His book Stumbling in the Bloom won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English poetry. His most recent book "crawlspace" (Harbour Publishing, 2011) won the Dorothy Livesay Prize (BC Best Book Award in Poetry) in 2012.
Pass taught English at Capilano University from 1975 to 2007. He lives on BC's Sunshine Coast near Sakinaw Lake with his wife, poet, essayist and novelist Theresa Kishkan
Four of his books of poetry form a linked quartet under the overall title, "At Large":
The Hour's Acropolis (Harbour Publishing, 1991)
Radical Innocence (Harbour Publishing, 1994)
Water Stair (Oolichan Books, 2000)
Stumbling in the Bloom (Oolichan Books, 2005)
Taking Place, 1971
The Kenojuak Prints, 1973
AIR 18, 1973 (ISSN 0044-6947)
Port of Entry, 1975
Love's Confidence, 1976
Blossom: An Accompaniment, 1978
There Go the Cars, 1979 (ISBN 0-920580-02-5)
An Arbitrary Dictionary, 1984 (ISBN 0-88910-284-8)
Rugosa, 1991 (ISBN 978-1-895362-24-4)
The Hour's Acropolis, 1991 (ISBN 1-55017-043-0) shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Radical Innocence, 1994 (ISBN 1-55017-107-0)
Mud Bottom, 1996
Water Stair, 2000 (ISBN 0-88982-179-8) shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and for the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
nowrite.doc, 2004
Twinned Towers, 2005
Stumbling in the Bloom, 2005 (ISBN 0-88982-201-8) winner of the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
Self Storage, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-926655-26-0)
crawlspace, 2011 (ISBN 978-1-55017-519-6) winner of the 2012 Dorothy Livesay Prize
Forecast (Selected Early Poems 1970 - 1990), 2015 (ISBN 9781550177312)
