Made in Montreal

The Pond at Westmount Park, 1916, Notman photograph I met Barbara Jane Whitley by chance, it was in October 2011 at the memorial service for...

    Yew Tree Inn, 1 Beardwood, Blackburn, Lancs, owned by my great great grandfather Thomas Parker, 1881   There is no consensus of intellig...

Cover,  Aggregate :Retrospective  by Guy Birchard Congratulations to my old friend Guy Birchard on his new book,  Aggregate :Retrosp...

More of my photographs of "Vehicule Days", exhibition and reading, on the evening of April 26, 2018 at McGill University's Rar...

Here is my group photo of the Vehicule Poets from our reading on the evening of April 26, 2018 at McGill University's Rare Books and Spe...

Claudia Lapp, one of the Vehicule Poets, reads her poem "Shivasana", at Hotel 10 in downtown Montreal, as part of the Blue Met Lit...

Today, 7 April 2018, is the 150th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in Ottawa. Celebrations of his life and memory...

It's a different experience to read someone's individual books than it is to read their collected poems. For instance, F.R. Scott...

I always assumed that everyone had “big dreams” at some time in their life. Everyone dreams but most people don’t listen to their dream...

I'll be glad when I've written my last poem and I can put this behind me Stephen Morrissey I've been writing poems...

Many of C.G. Jung’s psychological concepts and related interests—for instance, shadow, archetype, symbolism, alchemy, animus and anima, myth...

Reading one's old diaries or journals is like meeting a stranger you used to know, that stranger is yourself when younger. Back in Novem...

Walk in 2010 On International Women's Day both the CBC and CTV news mentioned this video of Luci Maud Montgomery who, they say, battled...

Bee balm in our garden, summer 2021 If there is a myth that speaks most directly to my experiences in life it is the Garden Myth, the story ...

When I heard that Gord Downie was born on February 6th I knew he was even more genuinely extraordinary than I originally thought. He also wr...

On the right is the Kennedy family home on Rushbrooke Avenue in Verdun where they lived in the 1920s. They had a private tennis court adjace...