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Raymond Souster
1921 -
works by
- When We Are Young (1946)
- Go To Sleep, World (1947)
- The Winter of Time (1949)
- City Hall Street (1951)
- Cerberus (1952)
- Shake Hands with the Hangman (1953)
- A Dream That Is Dying (1954)
- Walking Death (1954)
- For What Time Slays (1955)
- The Selected Poems (1956)
- Crepe-Hanger's Carnival (1958)
- A Local Pride (1962)
- Place of Meeting (1962)
- The Colour of the Times (1964)
- Ten Elephants on Yonge Street (1965)
- As Is (1967)
- Lost and Found (1968)
- Selected Poems of Raymond Souster (1972)
- On Target (1972)
- Change-Up (1974)
- Double Header (Oberon Press, 1975)
- Extra Innings (Oberon Press, 1977)
- Vapour and Blue: Souster Selects Campbell (Tecumseh Press, 1978)
- Hanging In (1979)
- Going the Distance (Oberon Press, 1983)
- Jubilee of Death (1984)
- Queen City (Oberon Press, 1984)
- Flight of the Roller-Coaster (1985)
- It Takes All Kinds (Oberon Press, 1986)
- The Eyes of Love (Oberon Press, 1987)
- Asking for More (Oberon Press, 1988)
- Asking for More (Oberon Press, 1991)
- Old Bank Notes (Oberon Press, 1993)
- Riding the Long Black Horse (Oberon Press, 1993)
- No Sad Songs Wanted Here (Oberon Press, 1995)
- Close to Home (Oberon Press, 1996)
- Collected Poems of Raymond Souster: 7 volumes (1980-94)
as editor
- Poets 56 (1956)
- New Wave Canada (1966)
- Generation Now (1970)
- Made In Canada (1970)
- Sights and Sounds (1973)
- 100 Poems of Nineteenth Century Canada (1974)
- These Loved, These Hated Lands (1975)
- Poems of a Snow-Eyed Country (1980)
- Powassan’s Drum: Selected Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott, with Douglas Lochhead (Tecumseh Press, 1985)
- Windflower: Selected Poems of Bliss Carmen, with Douglas Lochhead (Tecumseh Press, 1986)
works on
- Louis Dudek, "Groundhog Among the Stars: The Poetry of Raymond Souster," Canadian Literature, 22 (1964):34-49
- Hugh Cook, "Development in the Early Poetry of Raymond Souster," Studies in Canadian Literature, 3 (1978):113-118
- Francis Mansbridge, "A Delicate Balance: Craft in Raymond Souster's Poetry," Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews, 4 (1979):45-51
- Frank Davey, Louis Dudek & Raymond Souster (1980)
- Bruce Whiteman, Collected Poems of Raymond Souster: Bibliography (1984)
- "Raymond Souster," Canadian Writers and Their Works, ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley (1985), 5:237-76
- Gary Geddes, "A Cursed and Singular Blessing," Canadian Literature, 54 (1972):27-36
awards
- Governor General's Award in 1964 for The Colour of the Times
- City of Toronto Book Award in 1979 for Hanging In
- made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995
resources
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"The wonderful enigma of Raymond Souster"
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by Robert Fulford
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Raymond Souster
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brief bio, publishing info, and photo from the league of canadian poets
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Redeeming Riel
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by Louis Drew (discusses Souster's "Found Poem: Louis Riel Addresses the Jury")
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Flight of the Roller-Coaster: Poems for Younger Readers
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review by Caroline Young
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