Made in Montreal

C.G. Jung on poetry: Great poetry draws its strength from the life of mankind, and we completely miss its meaning if we try to derive it ...

News Flash! Montreal is the North American capital for deserting animals when people move. It's more than 75,000 animals left be...

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...

In addition to all of the important qualities a poet must have—talent, intelligence, and a passion, an obsession, or a compulsion to write—a...

Here are the rest of the photos from our evening out at a Chinese restaurant on St. Laurent. Here's Ken Norris on the phone before the...

Irving Layton, CZ, Noni Howard. Irving and Noni. Irving Layton and SM. Irving Layton lived in his old age on Monkland Avenu...

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