Made in Montreal

The Yoni Rocks , 1995 Ed Varney’s cover art for The Yoni Rocks (Empyreal Press, Montreal, 1995) is an image of the Venus of Willendorf, a s...

The Compass (Empyreal Press, Montreal, 1993) is the first book of the Shadow Trilogy, books I wrote between 1989 and 1997. I had several ti...

Heading home, west on Sherbrooke, there's the Chalet-BBQ, so many happy memories there! Riding my bike as a kid and buying french fries ...

It's spring 2007, or is it fall 2007? Here I am heading home again: there's the St. Lawrence River to my right as I cross the Champl...

Now it's winter and I'm heading out to the Champlain Bridge, merging in with the other traffic; there's the sun setting on the l...

From the top down: passing where the toll booths used to be after you've crossed the Champlain Bridge; slowing to rubber neck an acc...

1. Over a three-day period in late April 1977 I wrote a long poem, “Divisions” ( Divisions , Coach House Press, Toronto, 1983). I wrote abou...

Article from 11 November 1967 Back in 1967, two years after I began writing poems, I read the following article in the Montreal Star (publis...

Various views of St. Michael's Church, Mile End, Montreal. The church was copied from Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanbul. Except for t...

You have to fight for this life, fight for your vision. Fight to stay alive and creative and breathing, filling your two lungs to capacity a...

John V. Morrissy, a former cabinet minister in the New Brunswick government, and later a Member of Parliament in Ottawa, can be seen in thi...

A portrait of Edgar Morrissey, 1940s. Edgar Morrissey and (possibly) his first car... maybe late 1920s. Edgar Morrissey with his banjo, n...

Stephen Morrissey and his grandmother, Edith Sweeney Morrissey, around 1953; taken on the back porch of 2226 Girouard Avenue in Montreal.

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