Publisher's Synopsis
"The Essential Richard Outram" is an elegant, affordable selection of poems by one of Canada's great poets. By turns theatrical and philosophical and often both at once Outram is always intimately attuned to the wonders and the workings of language. This volume gathers well-loved lyrics alongside poems unpublished in Outram's lifetime: there is much here for both long-time readers of Outram's work and readers new to his oeuvre."