Made in Montreal

John Brown homestead, 1995 Preface "The Collapse of America" is a long poem that I began in August 2019 and completed in Janu...

Fire at the port of Montreal The Improved Binoculars by Irving Layton Below me the city was in flames: the firemen were the first to s...

Westmount Park, around 1920 My Lost Youth  by A.J.M. Smith I remember it was April that year, and afternoon. There was a modish od...

The Break-Up by A.M. Klein They suck and whisper it in mercury, the thermometers. It is shouted red from all the Aprils hanging o...

Lyrics of Air by Louis Dudek This April air has texture of soft scented ocean on my face -- no ripple against the skin but open w...

I took these photos of Vincelli's Garden Centre from Westminster Avenue on 24 March 2020 around 4 p.m.. ...

I took these photos of Vincelli's Garden Centre from Westminster Avenue on 23 March 2020 around 4 p.m.. ...

The COVID-19 virus preoccupies the news; everyday the number of infected people is rising, people are dying, people are recovering. The viru...

I was in the area yesterday and took these photos of what used to be Trinity Memorial Church, closed a few years ago despite great protest...

A mild January has given way to a very cold and snowy February, over 50 cm. of snow fell last week and it's -20 C this morning ... ...

                                                1. I think of "place" in poetry as referring to two things: place...

                                                                                                 Hark, hark! the dogs do bark, ...