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Book Launch: The Wren
April 9 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join the House of Anansi Press and Flying Books to celebrate the launch of The Wren by A.F. Moritz, introduced and in conversation with Michael Redhill. So that the venue may estimate attendance, please RSVP via Flying Books
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 title was chosen partly to speak to Moritz’s The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018), but also because, among the many short poems of this collection, one of them asked to be central: a poem about a small bird that hops from within a thicket of stems to peer out at the poet for a second and then disappears back inside. This tiny story of a tiny fellow creature is the narrative, the “novel,” of this book: a little story that is nonetheless one of the great and ever-retold stories.
The Wren is A.F. Moritz’s twenty-third book of poetry. 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, and he served as Toronto’s sixth Poet Laureate. 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. Great Silent Ballad received the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize.
BOOK LAUNCH
The Wren
by A.F. Moritz
(Anansi, 2026)
In conversation with Michael Redhill
Thursday, April 9, 6:30-8:00pm
Flying Books, 784 College Street, Toronto
This event is free of charge.
So that the venue may estimate attendance, please RSVP via Flying Books