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THE WREN
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?
The Waste Land Project
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.
GREAT SILENT BALLAD
Anansi, September 2024
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.
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.
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