Tom Marshall Biography | Poet

Thomas Archibald Marshall (9 April 1938 in Niagara Falls, Ontario – 1993 in Kingston, Ontario) was a Canadian poet and novelist. He received his MA at Queen's University in 1965, writing his thesis on poet A. M. Klein, and taught there from 1964 until his death. Marshall was the author of The Elements: Poems 1960–1975 (1980), an interlocking cycle of four poetry collections, and the novels Rosemary Goal (1978) and Adele at the End of the Day (1987).