- Born: 13 MAY 1905 – Calgary, Northwest Territories (now Alberta)
- Died: 03 SEP 1995 – ??
- Achievements:
- Governor General’s Award for David, and Other Poems
- Governor General’s Award for Now Is Time
- Stephen Leacock Award for Humour for Turvey
- Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature
- Canada Council Medal
- Works:
- David (1942)
- Now Is Time (1945)
- The Strait of Anian (1948)
- Trial of a City (1948)
- Turvey (1949)
- Twentieth Century Canadian [oetry, an Anthology (1953)
- Down the Long Table (1955)
- Alaska Passage (1960)
- Ice, Cod, Bell, or Stone (1962)
- Near False Creek Mouth (1964)
- Against the Spell of Death (1964)
- The Creative Writer (1966)
- Selected Poems (1966)
- Memory No Servant (1968)
- The Poems of Earle Birney (1969)
- Pnomes, Jukollages, and Other Stunzas (1969)
- Four Alphabeings (1971)
- Rag and Bone Shop (1971)
- The Cow Jumped over the Moon (1972)
- Buildings (1973)
- The Bear on the Delhi Road (1973
- What’s So Big About Green (1973)
- Collected Poems (1975)
- The Rugging and the Moving Times (1976)
- Alphbeings, and Other Seasyours (1976)
- Ghost in the Wheels (1977)
- Big Bird in the Bush (1978)
- Fall by Fury (1978)
- Spreading Time (1980)
- Words on Waves (1985)
- Copernican Fix (1986)
- Last Makings (1991)
- Died: 03 SEP 1995 – ??