Richard Outram | |
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 The poet Richard Outram in 1980 | |
| Born | April 9, 1930 |
| Died | January 21, 2005 (aged 74) |
| Spouse | Barbara Howard |
Richard Daley Outram (April 9, 1930 – January 21, 2005) was a Canadian poet. Often regarded as a poet's poet, he wrote eleven commercially published books of poetry in addition to the many collections of his poetry and prose published under the imprint of the Gauntlet Press. In 1999 he won the City of Toronto Book Award for his sequence of poems Benedict Abroad.[1]