GREAT SILENT BALLAD
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.
Great Silent Ballad Longlisted for the 2025 Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize
Great Silent Ballad Reviewed in Devour
Launch of Reibetanz’s Everyday Light in Toronto
“The Gift” featured on Kingdom Poets
Victoria Fellows Book Launch
Great Silent Ballad: Fall 2024 Events
AS FAR AS YOU KNOW
As Far As You Know, acclaimed poet A. F. Moritz’s twentieth collection of poems, begins with two sections entitled “Terrorism” and “Poetry.” The book unfolds in six movements, yet it revolves around and agonizes over the struggle between these two catalyzing concepts, in all the forms they might take, eventually arguing they are the unavoidable conditions and quandary of human life.
THE GARDEN
The Garden by A. F. Moritz is a passionate denunciation of injustice, especially as seen in the violent injustice directed to the African diaspora in North America. Comprised of a long poem, “The Garden in the Midst”, and an in-depth essay, “The Poet’s Garden,” the book … suggests that only the essence of poetry can prove antithetical antidote—if there can even be one—to this human crime and tragedy..
ABOUT
A. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, and 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. His most recent collections are The Sparrow (2018), As Far As You Know (2020), and Great Silent Ballad (2024). He lives in Toronto, where he recently served as the city’s sixth Poet Laureate.
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