Made in Montreal

F or the last six months I've been reading my way through the Montreal Group of poets who helped bring modernism in poetry to Canada bac...

The Improved Binoculars by Irving Layton Below me the city was in flames: the firemen were the first to save themselv...

The Break-Up by A.M. Klein They suck and whisper it in mercury, the thermometers. It is shouted red from all the Aprils hanging o...

"And the classic shade/ Of cedar and pine..."                                              1. Some people may think i...

  Map of Montreal from 1910 1 . Looking through an old notebook from 2010 I found a poem I had written about the poet A.M. Klein. Then I r...

The mountain in the distance, at Mount Royal and Park Avenue This is in response to Jason Camlot’s “After the Mountain; The A.M. Klein Reboo...