How to read this list
Rank
Position in the Top 55, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.
Audience size
Estimated number of unique people in Canada who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.
Country share
Share of the global audience that is active in Canada. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.
Avg age
Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Canada, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.
Female share
Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Canada. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.
Ranking
| Rank | Audience | Audience size | Country share | Avg age | Female share | Subtype |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GGilles Vigneault | 230k | 96.4% | 46.5 | 63.3% | Poet |
| 2 | SSylvia Plath | 200k | 3.6% | 41.6 | 74.4% | Poet |
| 3 | LLucan | 121k | 10.6% | 47.4 | 100.0% | Poet |
| 4 | HH. P. Lovecraft | 100k | 3.0% | 38.1 | 50.5% | Poet |
| 5 | EEmily Brontë | 75k | 2.5% | 31.6 | 45.4% | Poet |
| 6 | SShel Silverstein | 75k | 5.0% | 33.2 | 81.3% | Poet |
| 7 | NNikolai Gogol | 59k | 5.2% | 39.0 | 57.9% | Poet |
| 8 | LLord Byron | 56k | 2.6% | 34.4 | 63.9% | Poet |
| 9 | RRumi | 54k | 2.7% | 39.5 | 65.8% | Poet |
| 10 | RRay Bradbury | 51k | 3.7% | 39.3 | 56.4% | Poet |
| 11 | TTennessee Williams | 51k | 4.2% | 51.9 | 73.9% | Poet |
| 12 | RRalph Waldo Emerson | 43k | 3.7% | 47.1 | 45.9% | Poet |
| 13 | AAldous Huxley | 43k | 3.1% | 32.0 | 61.7% | Poet |
| 14 | HHenry David Thoreau | 40k | 3.0% | 39.8 | 54.9% | Poet |
| 15 | AAlexander Pushkin | 38k | 3.4% | 39.4 | 47.1% | Poet |
| 16 | CCharles Baudelaire | 38k | 5.3% | 39.3 | 56.2% | Poet |
| 17 | PPercy Bysshe Shelley | 37k | 4.0% | 46.1 | 66.0% | Poet |
| 18 | TT. S. Eliot | 35k | 1.5% | 35.7 | 64.1% | Poet |
| 19 | JJoyce Carol Oates | 34k | 4.2% | 45.7 | 60.4% | Poet |
| 20 | AAllen Ginsberg | 32k | 4.4% | 38.9 | 54.1% | Poet |
| 21 | AAudre Lorde | 31k | 5.5% | 26.4 | 100.0% | Poet |
| 22 | JJohn Milton | 31k | 4.4% | 38.5 | 60.7% | Poet |
| 23 | HHafez | 31k | 4.6% | 36.7 | 48.2% | Poet |
| 24 | Ddean koontz | 29k | 4.6% | 34.6 | 62.3% | Poet |
| 25 | AAmanda Gorman | 27k | 3.5% | 37.0 | 60.5% | Poet |
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Frequently asked questions
How is this list of the most popular poets compiled?
Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Canada and ranks each poet by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.
How often is the list updated?
The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.
What is the largest poet in Canada?
Gilles Vigneault currently leads with an estimated audience of 230k people in Canada.