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For the weekend, Thanksgiving verse from James McIntyre, the poet who gave us 'Ode to the Mammoth Cheese'. This version, taken f...

One hundred and forty years ago today – May 7, 1872 – the small Ontario town of Ingersoll lost Oxford Street, then its main commercial...

The Robert Burns Memorial Square Dorchester (né Dominion), Montreal Photograph by Wally Gobetz BURNS  The following ode wa...

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) Returning to James McIntyre – for the final time, I think – this poem...

James McIntyre's obituary in the the Globe of 2 April 1906, two days after his death. Not a word about his verse. Poems of James McInt...

The end of National Poetry Month approaches, and with it the stragglers in the parade of things McIntyre. I suppose he'll always be ...

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889)

Three or so years ago, I happened upon a newly installed bust of Robert Gourlay in Toronto's St. James Park. It was a pleasant surprise;...

P oems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) It seems they were forever fishing bodies out of Toronto Bay in the 19th century....

In this hectic week it took me three days to realize that Thomas Conant's cautious praise of James McIntyre was part of an exchange of ...

Newspaper editor John Stephen Willison was an admirer of James McIntyre, which may explain the position of the poet's name above those o...

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889)

Not much more to say about the elusive Nablo , though these paperback covers of The Long November are worthy of mention. The first, publishe...

Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) Bit of an Edward Gorey feel to it, don't you think? James McIntyre ha...

To Toronto this evening for the launch of my friend George Fetherling's third novel, Walt Whitman's Secret , at Ben McNally Boo...

James McIntyre's warm tribute to the great Thomas D'Arcy McGee , assassinated 142 years ago this morning. Poems of James McIn...

Ingersoll's 1897 Fireman and Police Banquet. Hardly a woman in sight. Today's James McIntyre poem is "Lines Addressed to an Old...