The Raymond Souster Award is a Canadian literary award, presented by the

League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as the national association of professional and aspiring poets in Canada. The League co ...

to a book judged as the best work of poetry by a Canadian poet in the previous year."Local poet wins national prize". ''

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'', June 12, 2014. The award was presented for the first time in 2013,"A.F. Moritz, Gillian Savigny honoured by league". ''

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'', June 15, 2013. and was named in honour of Canadian poet

Raymond Souster Raymond Holmes Souster (January 15, 1921 – October 19, 2012) was a Canadian poet whose writing career spanned over 70 years. More than 50 volumes of his own poetry were published during his lifetime, and he edited or co-edited a dozen volumes ...

Nominees and winners

References

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