Made in Montreal

W inter began early last year, around the beginning of November, so there wasn't much chance to rake and bag leaves, or tidy up, or put ...

This is the first time I've visited the Montreal Neurological Institute since October or November 1969; the entrance, on University Str...

It was a long and cold winter, a nightmare of a winter, and now spring weather is still cool. Usually by this time I have installed our air ...

  These are photographs I took of Ian Ferrier reading his work at the Visual Arts Centre in Westmount;  in the background is the organizer o...

  John McAuley and Claudia Lapp, at Bleu Met Literary Festival, April 2018 John McAuley reading at Rare Books and Special Collections, McGil...

Note:  This essay, "Remembering John McAuley, 1947 - 2026", was first published at Periodicities ; thank you rob mclennan for pub...

                          Grief with a glass that ran                                      —Swinburne  Grief is a room that was built on to ...

This was the day Cassidy and I walked on Mount Royal and spread Jack's ashes, he was a wonderful and intelligent Whippet, we all loved t...

  I made this video yesterday and put it online last night; Mr. Crow is looking for a good time! 

  Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,    The flying cloud, the frosty light:    The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and...

Down on Cyprus Avenue With a childlike vision slipping into view The click and clacking of the high-heeled shoe Ford and Fitzroy, and Madame...