Made in Montreal

  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...

  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 ...

Patrick Kavanagh I am always shy of calling myself a poet and I wonder much at those young men and sometimes old men who boldly declare the...

Maud Bodkin writes, When a great poet uses the stories that have taken shape in the fantasy of the community, it is not his individual sen...

Self-portrait by Jean Cocteau, 1939 Excerpts from Opium , by Jean Cocteau, (Icon Books, London, UK, 1957). Cocteau's notes were written ...