Shaunt Basmajian (30 September 1950 – 25 January 1990) was a Canadian poet and author. He was a co-founder of Old Nun Publications and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry group. In 1986, he was attacked with a knife and robbed while he was driving a taxi. His right lung was punctured when a robber stabbed him. He died one year later when his heart lining collapsed.

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* 1972: ''Spare Change'' * 1973: ''Quote Unquote'' * 1974: ''The Horserace As The Analogy'' * 1976: ''The Poem "In A Struggle With The Magnetic Source"'' * 1980: ''Boundaries Limits & Space'' * 1982: ''Surplus Waste and Other Poems'' * 1983: ''8 Irritations'' * 1984: ''Other Channels'' (poetry anthology coëdited with Daniel Jones) * 1985: ''Poets Who Don't Dance'' 1985 * 1986: ''Options'' * 1987: ''A Seduction-Poem For Miss January'' * 1988: ''3 poems'' * 1988: ''Biased Analogies'' * 1989: ''bfp(h)aGe'' (concrete poetry anthology coëdited with Brian David Johnston) * 1990: ''I am/I'm''

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Records of Shaunt Basmajian are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
1950 births 1990 deaths Writers from Beirut 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets 20th-century Canadian male writers {{Lebanon-poet-stub