Made in Montreal

If you remember (John) Leo Kennedy, one of the McGill Group of poets from the 1920s, and if you check out his bio in Wikipedia you'll se...

An article about Barbara Whitley in the Montreal Gazette of 04 June 2018.   My interest in Miss Whitley is because she knew the Morrisey fam...

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...