Raymond Fraser

Raymond Fraser (born May 8, 1941 in Chatham, New Brunswick) is a Canadian novelist and poet.

Fraser attended St Thomas University where in his freshman year he played on the varsity hockey and football teams, and in his junior year was co-editor with John Brebner of the student literary magazine Tom-Tom.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing. In 1971 he was one of the founders of the Montreal Story Tellers Fiction Performance Group and the Rank Outsiders Poetry Extravaganza. His first book of fiction, The Black Horse Tavern, was published in Montreal by Ingluvin Publications. Besides Montreal he has lived in Dublin, Paris and various parts of Spain and New Brunswick. He currently resides in Fredericton, NB. [1]

Books

Fiction

• The Black Horse Tavern - 1973
• The Struggle Outside - 1975
• The Bannonbridge Musicians - 1978
• Rum River - 1997
• Costa Blanca - 2001
• In a Cloud of Dust and Smoke - 2003

Biography

• The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle - 1981, 1983, 2005
• Todd Matchett: Confessions of a Young Criminal - 1994

Poetry

• For the Miramichi - 1966
• Waiting for God's Angel - 1967
• I've Laughed and Sung - 1969
• The More I Live - 1971
• Macbride Poems - 1992
• Before You're A Stranger - 2000

External link

• Archival records for Raymond Fraser at the University of New Brunswick