Made in Montreal

I just finished reading Leo Kennedy's The Shr ouding , originally published in 1933, this edition was re-published by Michael Gnarowski...

Mark McCawley , the editor of Urban Grafitti ,  was in favour of online/digital magazines, I was in favour (and still am) of both, but I pre...

I've just read Patricia Morley's As Though Life Mattered, Leo Kennedy's Story (1994); Kennedy was one of the four poets that co...

I've just reread F.R. Scott's, The Dance is One ( 1973). Scott is not a great poet but he's also not a minor poet; as I wrote ab...

F.R. Scott was born in Quebec City on August 1st in 1899 but lived most of his life in Montreal. A member of the Montreal Group of poets, Sc...

Here is a Painted Lady butterfly on an echinacea bloom in our backyard. Lots of fun growing the flowers and then seeing many butterflies on ...

This review was originally published in The Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Society of Montreal, February 2017. The Archetypal Imagination...

Part of a poet's education is reading poetry and hearing poets read their work. Other people's poems inspire us, not to write like t...

Hear the church bells ringing at St. Thomas Anglican Church in Montreal, October 2016.

On Mount Royal If English-Canadian poetry is largely narrative and French-Canadian poetry is largely lyrical, then the most interesting Fren...

A favourite activity, watching honey bees foraging for nectar and pollen in flowers... here is the latest video on that.

Saying "Goodbye" to our friend Robert as he sets off in his Saab for home in Baltimore...

It's July 2, 2016 but feels like an early fall day, windy, grey sky, rain blowing in; cool until the sun comes out. Here is my grand...

Out walking in Montreal West when I made a detour back to my own neighbourhood, the borough of Notre Dame de Grace. Passing the old Rosed...

INTRODUCTION: NO LOOKING BACK NOW M ark McCawley, who died suddenly in April 2016, was an Edmonton-based writer, ...

Review of Sylvia Brinton Perera's  Queen Maeve and Her  Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstasy, Addiction, and  Healing . Carrowmare Boo...

Some thoughts on bad poems and fake poems : Fake poems are contrived, pretending to be the real thing. But a bad poem is just what it i...

Another year of living in one of the best countries in the world. Canada.

2226 Girouard Avenue is the door on the right leading to the upstairs flat A few years ago I decided to digitize my out-of-print books and m...