Poetry publishing in the province of Quebec is intrinsically linked to the Canadian context and its system of government subsidies, its French-English bilingualism and its rather small pool of poetry readers. In this context, the publishers are likely to maintain a cautious relationship with the publication of foreign poets in translation, even if that activity has the potential to enrich Canada’s cultural heritage. This research is part of a Canada-wide reflection on the role of literary translation in the birth, the preservation and the redefinition of a nation’s identity. In this article, we share a preliminary observation of the presence of foreign poets translated into French and published in Quebec between January 2000 and October 2014. We sought to answer the following questions: 1) Which foreign poets are translated? 2) What trends are emerging in the field of language and place of origin? 3) What publishers are most involved? 4) Who translate foreign poets? 5) What are the funding sources behind the published corpus? This exploratory study could serve as a basis for further studies on translation and published foreign poetry in the province of Quebec.