Great Silent Ballad
Cassandra Drudi, “Great Silent Ballad” in “Industry News, 2024 Fall Preview: Short Fiction, Graphic Novels and Poetry,” Quill & Quire, July 31, 2024. [website] | [pdf]
Colin Carberry, “A.F. Moritz: Great Silent Ballad,” The High Window, August 1, 2024. [website] | [pdf]
“44 Poetry Collections to Watch for in Fall 2024,” CBC, September 5, 2024. [website] | [pdf]
Shane Joseph, “Poetry Reviews Editor’s Letter,” Devour, Issue 20, March 2025, pp 20-21. [website] | [pdf]
Gordon Phinn, “Review: Great Silent Ballad,” Devour, Issue 20, March 2025, pp 22-23. [website] | [pdf]
Richard Grove, “Meaning Beyond Articulation,” Devour, Issue 20, March 2025, pp 92-97. [website] | [pdf]
Selena Mercuri, “TSR Hot Takes: Brief Notes on Books Present and Past: Great Silent Ballad,” The Seaboard Review, March 2025. [website] | [pdf]
gillian harding-russell, “Prospero as Visionary Poet: Great Silent Ballad,” The Fiddlehead, Issue 303, April 2025. [website] | [pdf]
Beth Everest, “Review of A.F. Moritz’s Great Silent Ballad” Freefall Magazine, July 2025. [website] | [pdf]
Bret Van Den Brink, “Book Review: Great Silent Ballad, by A.F. Moritz,” Traces, November 2, 2025. [website] | [pdf]
Dawn MacDonald, “A.F. Moritz’s Great Silent Ballad,” Reviews of Books I Got For Free or Cheap, November 30, 2025. [Substack] | [pdf]
As Far As You Know
Micheline Maylor, “Reviews: A.F. Moritz, As Far As You Know,” Quill & Quire, April 2020. [website] | [pdf]
Barb Carey, “Water fountains, books, heart surgery, the unexpected feature in Al Moritz’s new poetry,” Toronto Star, 23 April 2020 [website] | [pdf]
Ross Leckie, “A Song of Despair or Hope?” Fiddlehead, Spring 2020 [website] | [pdf]
Carl Watts, Book Review: Carl Watts / A.F. Moritz, Hamilton Arts and Letters, August 27, 2020 [website] | [pdf]
James Deahl, “A Moral Voice in Uncertain Times,” Pacific Rim Review of Books, Issue 25, 15:1, 2021 [website] | [pdf article] | [pdf full journal]
Eric Miller, Poetry Review: As Far as You Know, Malahat Review 212, Fall 2020 [website] | [pdf]
The Garden
CBC Books, “The Best canadian Poetry of 2021,” CBC Books, December 14, 2021 [website] | [pdf]
CBC Books, “The Garden,” CBC Books, March 31, 2021 [website] | [pdf]
Art of Surgery
The Sparrow
Michael Greenstein, “The Sparrow: Selected Poems by A.F. Moritz,” Miramichi Reader. May 29, 2023 [website] | [pdf]
George Fetherling, “A. F. Moritz does the ‘hard work of looking back’ with career-spanning Sparrow,” The Globe and Mail [Toronto]. July 19, 2018 [website] | [pdf]
Micheline Maylor, “A Resplendent Sparrow,” Quill and Quire. March, 2018 [website] | [pdf]
Sequence
Alison Goodwin, “The Search for Wonder: A.F. Moritz’s Sequence,” ARC Magazine. 2015 [website] | [pdf]
Candace Fertile, “Sequence,” Quill & Quire. March, 2015 [website] | [pdf]
Elana Wolff, A. F. Moritz Presented by Alana Wolff, Brick Books, Celebration of Canadian poetry, January, 2016 [website] | [pdf]
James W. Wood. Reviews: A.F. Moritz, Sequence. STAND Magazine 13(4) 208 2015.See also, STAND Magazine. [STAND, pdf]
Patrick M. Pilarski. “Review: Sequence, by A. F. Moritz.” Vallum 12:2 [website archives] | [pdf]
The New Measures
PRINT:
Stewart Cole, “Achieving the Unparaphrasable: A Review of A.F. Moritz’s The New Measures,” The Urge: Reviewing Canadian Poetry. September 16, 2012 [website] | [pdf]
VIDEO:
Jeffery Donaldson, “A. F. Moritz’s, The Book to Come,’ from The New Measures,” The Jeweller’s Eye [website]
The Sentinel
Early Poems
Dawn Macdonald, The Seaboard Review of Books, June 2, 2025 [website] | [pdf]
Richard Greene, “A City of Mere Light,” Maisonneuve, September 1, 2003 [website] | [pdf]
