Made in Montreal

One of complaints made by critics about A.J.M. Smith is that his body of published work is too small for him to be considered an imp...

"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...

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...

It's Good Friday 2019. Here is A.J.M. Smith's poem "Good Friday"; note that in the final stanza he uses the archaic word ...

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