Made in Montreal

  As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game.                —T.S. ...

  On some days I have several thousand visitors on this site and I wonder who are these people; often they are from Singapore but, recently,...

  20 January 2016, Blvd de Maisonneuve, Montreal I like to sit and write, I like to put words on a page and form sentences, paragraphs, stat...

  Preface     T his is a compilation of some of the essays and reviews I wrote from 1975 to 2018. My main concern in these e...

  I've spent a lifetime writing: a diary I've kept  everyday since January 1965, books, poetry, book reviews,  criticism , and  corr...

  Deleted: Creativity has the capacity to heal; some have fallen into the darkness of existence, and writing poetry or making art is one way...

  Deletions: 3.   You don’t become a poet expecting to be liked for everything you write, or even for some of what you write. Why do people ...

                       The discovery of a poet’s voice brings an authenticity to the poet’s work, that the poet’s voice communicates the con...