Raymond Souster

Raymond Souster (1921-2012), born in Toronto, spent his whole life there, except during the Second World War, when he served on the ground in the air force. An employee of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for more than forty years, a vault keeper, he founded with Irving Layton and Louis Dudek a publishing house that would publish the early work of Margaret Atwood, and he ran a magazine and the readings of a city gallery. First president of the League of Canadian Poets, in correspondence with Cid Corman and Robert Creeley, blind at the end of his life, he died in Toronto.

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• PoetryThe Colour of the TimesRaymond Souster · 1964Literature