Celebrated-after-death poet Malcolm Miller's time in Montreal

  A dead poet who attended McGill in the mid-1950s has become the subject of interest in certain parts of literary-land.
   Malcolm Miller died alone at 83 and in great squalor in Salem, Massachusetts in 2014, leaving behind 58 of notebooks of poetry which have been the source of some excitement to Prof Rod Kessler, who has undertaken the task of going through the writings.
  Miller's Montreal friends of yore included McGill schoolmate Leonard Cohen.
  But while Cohen became much-celebrated, Miller lived in total obscurity, in spite of his considerable talent.
  One of Miller's poems describes Dylan Thomas' visit to Montreal in 1952 where he spoke at McGill University, about 500 days before he would die of drink in New York City.

he had come along down the frozen St Lawrence
released from their invisible rope and hungering
bright eyes at 4 in the morning he would
enter his dark hotel room like a seawave
slumping to the sand
to do the resurrection work of an ice breaker

  Miller was published in one collection during his lifetime but many of his 3,500 unpublished poems appear bound to appear in an upcoming anthology.
  Nine other poems by the eccentric recluse ran in Salem State's literary magazine Soundings East but only when he was nearing his lonely death.
   Kessler is hoping to uncover more information about Miller's time in Montreal, so if anybody has knowledge of Miller's time here, please contact Kessler here.