Made in Montreal

Photos taken in mid-August 2018 at the City Farm garden on the Loyola Campus of Concordia University in Montreal. One of my favourite activi...

1977 1.   I began writing poetry before I heard of Allen Ginsberg but Ginsberg is the first poet whose work influenced me as a poet. He...

The new soccer field at Loyola Park has been completed and the children's area has been moved and improved, but thankfully nothing ha...

When did I become a nihilist? I was born this way. Inner Space is a hinterland of cosmic waste; here, everyone is either a nihili...

R.G. (Ron) Everson was a prominent poet back in the 1950s and 60s, he is also one the founders of the League of Canadian Poets. Like many of...

I've been reading and enjoying R.G. Everson's poetry for many years. Ron Everson (1903 - 1992) was a Montreal poet, he was also a ...

A few months ago I made the comment on Facebook that F.R. Scott is a "minor poet". Right away I knew I had committed some kind of ...

I wanted to be a part of something and I thought I was. I thought I was on the great journey of individuation, or that I believed in God, ...

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...