Nonfiction
In Conversation
Poetry
- Irving Layton Reads at the Great Canadian Poetry Weekend
- All Things Long To
- Poetry’s Bottom Line: Towards an Essay on Poetics
- Spring Survival of the Raked Lawn
- The Trials of Plants in Autumn
- Hearts
- Excerpts from The Year of the Four Emperors
- Darkness
- The Mid-March Frogs
- Passenger
- The Homeless at Twilight
- The podiatrist pronounces on his son’s divorce
- From beyond the grave, the podiatrist counsels his son on prayer
- This is a father
- You Know?
- Clock Solitaire
- Infans
- Salt Poem
- The True, the Beautiful and the Good: Excerpts from Undergraduated Essays
- Fish Farm Fish
- Loving My Sons
- What Was But Now is Lost
- At the Laurier Metro Station
- Nimble & Poise
- Been a Long Time
- He Finds an Acceptable Way to Grieve
- The Pond
- Back
- Misplaced
- After Grief
- Eden
- Finish When Unfinished
- Still Life
- Metamorphosis
- Find a High
- Crown
- Lilacs
- Meshaw Falls
- The Watcher
- Morning Glories
- First Stad
- Abdiction
- His Surprise
- Ghost World
- River
- transcendental graffiti
- on first time teaching “The Tyger”
- on teaching The Tempest to first-years
- on listening to a first-year student read Bishop’s “One Art”
- Earthly
- Agnostic
- gooseberry cove
- Echos
- Bipolarities
- Tilt
- Am I
- I Have Loved You
- House Dream
- Spring Cleaning
- Death
- Once More With Feeling
- Acheron
- Breath
- Rasberry
- Crab Dock
- A Brush with Death
- In Country Near Elora
- Fall Harvest
- Any letter standing still and floating
- Spoon Dance
- You are the black of night
- For example,
- To Room 29 at the End of Time
- Leo & Co.
- Parables
- The Handbook of Correct Answers
- Let Go
- Swallows
- Reading by the Pool
- A Bird Problem
- If carefully your father sat
- Occasion
- August
- Spring Garden Road
- April Fool’s Song
- The Wooden Prince
- Motet
- For John Kendall
- Ontario Street
- Found
- Sorrow, then deep sorrow
- A Low Diet and Hard Keeping
- The Ages
- Arrogance
- Sportsmen
- In a Prosperous Country
- Wings and Birds
- Hazel
- Prayer, in Pain
- The Ponies in the Luxembourg Gardens
- Cellar
- For the Chickadee
- Childless
- Prognosis: 50-50
- Room 238: Old Woman and Hummingbird
- Tested
- Airmall
- My Skeleton
- My Flounder
- Their Boy
- A Late Night Walk
- The Dalai Lama at St. Joseph’s Oratory
- The Unitarian Churchyard in Burlington
- Burning Days, Luminous Sky
- Made in China
- The Pumpkin Fields