Made in Montreal

  This body of my mother, pierced by me, In grim fulfilment of our destiny, Now dry and quiet as her fallow womb Is laid beside the shell of...

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...

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

I've mentioned Leo Kennedy before, he was a member of the Montreal Group of poets back in the 1920s and '30s. Now we can add this ...

I first heard of the poet Leo Kennedy from John McAuley when he read a poem about Kennedy at The Yellow Door Coffee House; if you check my...

If you remember (John) Leo Kennedy, one of the McGill Group of poets from the 1920s, and if you check out his bio in Wikipedia you'll se...

On the right is the Kennedy family home on Rushbrooke Avenue in Verdun where they lived in the 1920s. They had a private tennis court adjace...