Made in Montreal

  Irving Layton and Stephen Morrissey, 1997  At the end of the garden walk the wind and its satellite wait for me; their meaning I will not ...

Irving Layton, Carolyn Zonailo, and Noni Howard, at Layton`s home on Monkland Avenue, Montreal, 1997. Photo by Stephen Morrissey      Bishop...

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

Fire at the port of Montreal The Improved Binoculars by Irving Layton Below me the city was in flames: the firemen were the first to s...

  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...

Note: This is the text of my speech p repared for the Louis Dudek Tribute held in the Writers' Chapel at St. Jax Church, 1439 Sain...

From last summer's reading: in I Wanted to Write a Poem, The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet (1958) William Carlos Williams discuss...

This must have been 1997 when Noni Howard stayed with us at Casa Bella. Here we are at the side door with Noni. Maybe it was just...

Irving Layton, CZ, Noni Howard. Irving and Noni. Irving Layton and SM. Irving Layton lived in his old age on Monkland Avenu...

A walk in our neighbourhood, Notre Dame de Grace, is always interesting and fun. Here, beside the apartment where Artie Gold use...