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Richard Outram : Publications

Poetry Books & Chapbooks

Eight Poems. Toronto: Tortoise Press, 1959.
Exsultate, Jubilate. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1966.
Scarlatti at Improvisation (pamphlet). Toronto: Aliquando Press, 1972.
Creatures. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1972.
Railway (broadside). Toronto: Aliquando Press, 1973.
Seer. With drawings by Barbara Howard. Toronto: Aliquando Press, 1973.
Thresholds. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1973.
Below Zero (broadside). Toronto: Aliquando Press, 1974.
Locus. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1974.
Turns and Other Poems. London, Toronto: Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press, 1975, and Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1976.
Arbor. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1976.
The Promise of Light. Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1979.
Selected Poems (1960-1980). Toronto: Exile Editions, 1984.
Man in Love. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 1985.
Hiram and Jenny. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 1989.
Mogul Recollected. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 1993.
Around & About the Toronto Islands. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1993.
Hiram and Jenny, Unpublished Poems. Ottawa: Food for Thought Books, 1994.
Tradecraft and Other Uncollected Poems. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1994.
Eros Descending. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1995.
Benedict Abroad. St. Thomas Poetry Series, Toronto, 1998. (Winner of the 1999 City of Toronto Book Award)
Ms Cassie. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 2000.
Dove Legend & Other Poems. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 2001.
Lightfall. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 2001.
Nine Shiners. Port Hope: n.p., 2003. With reproductions of paintings by Barbara Howard.
Brief Immortals. Port Hope: n.p., 2003. With reproductions of paintings by Barbara Howard.
South of North: Images of Canada, with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 2007.
The Essential Richard Outram, Amanda Jernigan, ed., Erin, Ont.: Porcupine's Quill, 2011.

Prose

An Exercise in Exegesis. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1991.
Corrections to the Cave. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1992.
Peripatetics. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1994.
"And Growes to Something of Great Constancie ...", being a SYZYGY. Toronto: Gauntlet Press, 1994.
Divers Arrows. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1995.
Swann: A Literary Mystery (a brief talk on Carol Shields' book of that title, and on the poems included therein. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1995.)
Notes on William Blake's 'The Tyger'. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1997.
Stardust. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1998.
Of Blockheads. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 1999 & 2000.
Arrows of Desire. Toronto: Hart House, 2000.
Arrows of Desire. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 2001, (a revised version of the above).
Rage & Outrage: Poetry & the Media. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 2002.
Poetic Practice. Toronto: Arts & Letters Club, 2003.

Anthologies

Christian Poetry in Canada, David A. Kent, ed., ECW Press, 1989.
Literature in English, W. H. New and W. E. Messenger, eds., Prentice Hall, Scarborough, ON, 1993.
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry, Kate Braid & Sandy Shreve, eds., Polestar/Raincoast Books, Vancouver, BC, 2005.
Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, Zachariah Wells, ed., Biblioasis, Emeryville, ON, 2008.
Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems, Nancy Holmes, ed., Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, ON, 2009.
Arc Poetry Annual 2010: Best of How Poems Work (2003-2008), Arc Poetry Society, Ottawa, ON, 2009.
Modern Canadian Poets, Evan Jones & Todd Swift, eds., Carcanet Press, Manchester, England, 2010.

OTHER INFORMATION

Digital facsimiles of the books and broadsheets of the Gauntlet Press in the collection of the Memorial University of Newfoundland can be viewed at the website dedicated to The Gauntlet Press of Richard Outram and Barbara Howard, together with extensive background material and an exhaustive bibliography.
A 52 minute audio interview with Richard Outram conducted by Michael Enright, originally broadcast on the CBC radio program "Sunday Edition" on 7 April, 2002.