Artie Gold (15 January 1947 – 14 February 2007) was a Montreal-based Canadian poet who rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the circle of Montreal-based writers known as The Vehicule Poets. Characterized as one of the wildest and most daring of the Vehicule poets, Gold was influenced by the work of Jack Spicer and Frank O'Hara, his cats (to whom he was allergic) and his myriad eclectic autodidact interests. Though plagued by illness throughout his life, he worked prolifically and was always less interested in fame or academic placement than he was in creating poetry "at the front of the arts". In a tribute to Gold, the Montreal Gazette considered him "one of Canada's finest poets". Bibliography cityflowers, Delta Press, Montreal, 1974 Even Yr Photograph Looks Afraid of Me, Talon Books, Vancouver, 1975 Mixed Doubles, with Geoff Young, The Figures, Berkeley, 1975 5 Jockey Poems, The Word Book Store, Montreal, 1977 Some of the Cat Poems, CrossCountry Press, Montreal, 1978 before Romantic Words, Vehicule Press, Montreal, 1979 The Beautiful Chemical Waltz, Selected Poems, The Muses' Company, Montreal, 1992 Hotel Victoria, Above Ground Press, Ottawa, 2003 The Collected Books of Artie Gold, Talon Books, Vancouver, 2010 References External links Artie Gold at the Literary Underground wiki "Remembering Artie Gold" by Stephen Morrissey Vehicule Press Tribute Montreal Gazette Tribute Globe and Mail feature on Gold by Wanda O'Connor 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male poets 21st-century Canadian poets Writers from Montreal 2007 deaths Anglophone Quebec people 1947 births Jewish Canadian writers 21st-century Canadian male writers