Made in Montreal

First, I think Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by Singularity; it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highe...

Poems, which are the spiritual blood of a poet, Renew themselves in an eternal April, And renew us also who take them into ...

1977 1.   I began writing poetry before I heard of Allen Ginsberg but Ginsberg is the first poet whose work influenced me as a poet. He...

Preface to Mapping the Soul, Selected Poems, 1978-1998 (Muses’s Company, Winnipeg, 1998) When I was growing up, I had two dreams that profo...

Article from 11 November 1967 Back in 1967, two years after I began writing poems, I read the following article in the Montreal Star (publis...