Outram, Richard, 1930-2005

Richard Daley Outram (April 9, 1930-January 21, 2005) was a Canadian poet and publisher.
Born in Oshawa, Ontario to Mary Muriel Daley, a school teacher, and Allan Outram, an engineer and veteran of the First World War. The couple moved to Toronto, where Richard attended high school in Leaside from 1944 to 1949.
Outram later attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto from 1949 to 1953, earning his Honors B.A. in English and Philosophy and studying with Northam Fry and Emil Fackenheim. During his summers, he served as an officer cadet in the Royal Canadian Navy reserves in the maritimes.
Following his graduation, Outram worked at the CBC as a stagehand before moving to London, England to work as a television stagehand at the BBC between 1955 and 1956. It was during this period that he began to write poetry and met his future wife, Barbara Howard. The couple returned to Toronto and married in 1957 and Outram returned to the CBC where he worked until 1990 as the stage crew foreman.
Between 1966 and 2001, Outram published ten collections of poetry in addition to dozens of collections of poetry and prose under the Gauntlet Press imprint, a small private press which he and Barbara Howard founded in 1960. The Gauntlet Press issued limited editions (60-80 copies) of Outram’s poetry, including Creatures (1972), Thresholds (1973), Locus (1974) and Arbor (1976). The Gauntlet Press also issued series of broadsheets of Outram’s poems throughout the 1970s and 1980s before shifting to computer-based publications. The limited editions produced by the Gauntlet Press in the 1990s include Around and About the Toronto Islands (1993), Tradecraft and Other Collected Poems (1994), Eros Descending (1995), Ms. Cassie (2000) and Lightfall (2001).
Outram also published works with other publishers, including Anson-Cartwright Publications (Turns and Other Poems, The Promise of Light, and Benedict Abroad).
Outram's collection "Benedict Abroad" won the City of Toronto's Book Award in 1999.
Following his wife’s death in 2002, Outram took his own life, dying of hypothermia in Port Hope, Ontario on January 21, 2005.

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Catherine Dunphy, "A poet voiceless without his muse: Richard Outram, 74, was 'visionary' but losing Barbara drained him of life." Toronto Star, February 21, 2005. B5.