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] 

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

Steven W. Beattie, “A.F. Moritz on being poet laureate, his new chapbook, and ‘the glory and the tragedy of being human,'” Quill & Quire, April 25, 2019. [website] | [pdf]

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

Amanda Lim, “The Poets Quandaries,” Canadian Literature, 200, Spring, 2009 [website] | [pdf]]

Todd Swift. “The New Collection by A. F. Moritz,” Toddswift Blogspot. June, 2008 [website] | [pdf]

Early Poems

Richard Greene, “A City of Mere Light,” Maisonneuve, September 1, 2003 [website] | [pdf]

Extras

Reviews of Fellow Poets

A review of Brian Campbell’s book of poems, Shimmer Report by A.F. Moritz, Vallum 14:1 Spring 2017.

Mentions

Moritz’s Poem “Odds and Ends” from the Best American Poetry in English, 2008 referenced in Molly Peacock, “American Pool or Canadian Lake: Molly Peacock on Poets’ Approaches,” The Best American Poetry Typepad, January 27, 2009 [website]| [pdf]
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