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Richard Brait, poet

Poetry

Richard Brait is a corporate lawyer living in Toronto. He has degrees in Engineering Physics and Law from Queens University, a graduate degree in Law from the University of Oxford, and (41 years later) his MFA in Poetry from Bennington College. Richard’s poetry and criticism has been published in several journals. He was the 2021 winner of the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition for Emerging Writers and placed 2nd in both the 2023 Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Competition and the 2025 Nick Blatchford Poetry Competition. His first book, “Bingo with Virgil,” will be published by Exile Editions in December 2026.

Location:

Toronto, ON

Birthdate:

27 February (71 years old)

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