Made in Montreal

  Signature by F.R. Scott, Klanak Press, Vancouver, 1964 What is it makes a church so like a poem? The inner silence -- space between words...

We ate at, was it Hurley's Restaurant in Vancouver, in 1992? Another time we visited Nellie's home that she named Casa Contenta, and...

  Tom Konyves, at his AM Productions in Vancouver, 1992 Tom Konyves and Stephen Morrissey, at a poetry reading in Vancouver, 1991 A couple o...

  Review: ineffable, The Mystical Poems , (2022) Edwin Varney The Poem Factory, Courtenay, BC ISBN: 978-1-895593-57-0 Unpriced; 14...

  My in-laws built a house in the Spanish Banks area of Vancouver in the early 1970s; back then it was all UBC professors and a few eccentri...

This painting by Nellie McClung has hung in our home for many years. Not only was Nellie a terrific poet, but she was also a visual artist...

Ralph Maud is the foremost Charles Olson scholar. I must have ten books by Ralph on Olson, who is also one of my favourite American poets....

Here's CZ and Nellie McClung in the fall, 1991, Vancouver. Nellie dropped in with a friend from Quebec's Eastern Townships. C...

Here's Ed Varney, Carolyn Zonailo, and Stephen Morrissey. The first book review I ever wrote, and published, was of Ed Varney's Hu...

Marya Fiamengo and Stephen Morrissey. Poet Marya Fiamengo in her office at the Department of English, UBC,Vancouver. Marya, Step...

This scultpure, "Transcendence," by Jack Harman is located on the campus of  the University of British Columbia, outside of ...