Hiram and Jenny

Hiram and Jenny concerns the comings and goings, the deeds and evasions, the Private Poems and Sacred Ejaculations, the maunderings and heroics, the reflections and refractions of past, present and future, of one Hiram and his lady friend Jenny, together with their cast of somewhat skewed friends and often amicable foes, as often as not relatives, who live in and around a small town somewhere in the Canadian Maritimes.

Outram was born in Canada in 1930. He was a graduate of the University of Toronto (English and Philosophy) and retired from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he worked for many years as a stagehand crew leader. He has written more than twenty books, four of these published by the Porcupine''s Quill (Man in Love [1985, Hiram and Jenny [1988, Mogul Recollected [1993, and Dove Legend [2001). He won the City of Toronto Book Award in 1999 for his collection Benedict Abroad (St Thomas Poetry Series). His work is the subject of a book-length study, `Her Kindled Shadow...'': An Introduction to the Work of Richard Outram, by Peter Sanger (Nova Scotia: The Antigonish Review, 2001/2002).

Richard Outram died in 2005.