In The Wren, A.F. Moritz arranges 70 short poems in a sort of galaxy: an apparent scatter, not of stars but of poems, of feeling-thoughts. What is the unity of these active “states” of ours, given that they do not simply follow, or hook onto, or neighbour, or echo one another in a chain of resemblance that seems to have gaps and missing links that reappear later, healed?
Save the Date: The Wren launches at Flying Books on April 9th
Solie & Moritz at the Victoria College Faculty Reading Series
Cover Reveal: Eternities
Seven Poems from “The Wren” in The High Window
Cover Reveal: The Wren
Reading: Where Words Defeat Bullets
Bitter Oleander Press, Spring 2026
ETERNIDADES/ETERNITIES (1916-1917), Juan Ramón Jiménez, Bilingual Edition, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by A.F. Moritz
Written in 1916 and 1917, published in 1918, Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Eternities is one of the foundational books of modern Spanish literature and of the modernist period. A.F. Moritz presents a masterful translation of Jiménez’s landmark collection.
Vallum Chapbook Series, No. 40, 2025
This chapbook brings together twelve poems responding to the subject of war, with emphasis on war in Ukraine. Created for The Waste Land Project, an initiative by Theater of War in collaboration with the Toronto International Festival of Authors (Canada), Bristol Ideas (UK), and Aké Arts and Books Festival (Nigeria), the poems were inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land on its 100th anniversary.
Winner of the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize
Great Silent Ballad, lyric poet A.F. Moritz’s twenty-second volume of poetry, in visionary terms, forwards the assertion that poetry, a primordial reality, is in the current moment both the equal of, and the antidote to, the rest of present-day civilization and its suicidal nature.
ABOUT
A. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry. His most recent collections are The Wren (2026), Great Silent Ballad (2024), As Far As You Know (2020), and The Sparrow (2018). He has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. His collection, The Sentinel, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, and was a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year. And Great Silent Ballad received the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize. He lives in Toronto, where he recently served as the city’s sixth Poet Laureate.
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