T.L. Morrisey

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry and What it Means to be a Poet (6)

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A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 Two dreams when I was young had a profound affect ...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry and What it Means to be a Poet (5)

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A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 The contradiction in writing is that you write in ...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Emile Nelligan's second childhood home, near Carre St-Louis, still on Laval Avenue

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 Here I am in front of Emile Nelligan's home on Laval Avenue in the Plateau, April 2011. Nelligan is one of our greatest Cana...
Friday, June 24, 2011

From Maud Bodkin

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Maud Bodkin writes, When a great poet uses the stories that have taken shape in the fantasy of the community, it is not his individual sen...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry and What it Means to be a Poet (4)

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A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 My father died in 1956 and my mother remarried in ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Poetry, D.H. Lawrence, & the Apocalypse

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D.H. Lawrence writes the following in Apocalypse : To get at the Apocalypse we have to appreciate the mental working of the pagan thinker ...
Monday, June 20, 2011

A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry and What it Means to be a Poet (3)

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A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I ...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Champlain Bridge

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Friday, June 17, 2011

A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry and What it Means to be a Poet (2)

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A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 Poetry, in my experience, is written in a moment o...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

Home of Emile Nelligan on Laval Avenue in the Plateau (one)

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Here is the home of the Quebec-born poet Emile Nelligan. The spoken-word poet Ian Ferrier and his family live there today.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry and What it Means to be a Poet (1)

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A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet ,  Ekstasis Editions, 2019 My essay,   A Poet's Journey: Notes on Poetry ...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Champlain Bridge

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Great Year: The Age of Aquarius, c. 2000 - 4000 A.D.

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The Age of Aquarius (c. 2000 - 4000 A.D.) the world felt itself at the beginning of a great change                --W.B. Yeats Odyss...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Great Year: The Age of Pisces, c. 100 B.C. - 2000 A.D.

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The Age of Pisces (c. 100 B.C. - 2000 A.D.) Fish surrounded me when I was a child, even my mother's arms felt wet and cold; I co...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

A "Stop" sign ("Arret") becomes "Art" on Park Avenue

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Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Great Year: The Age of Aries, c. 2400 - 100 B.C.

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13 March 2010  The Age of Aries (c. 2400 B.C. - 100 B.C.) The moon blood red, not with harvest, but like the earth, with blood; pe...
Monday, May 30, 2011

A truck load of animals on the way to the abattoir

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Phillips Square seen from The Bay in late May 2011

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The Great Year: The Age of Taurus, c. 4550 - 2400 B.C.

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13 March 2010 The Age of Taurus (c. 4550 - 2400 B.C.) The bull silent in an ochre coloured field, genitals hanging; the shadow in mo...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Great Year: The Age of Gemini, c. 6480 - 4550 B.C.

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Montreal, 1852 The Age of Gemini (6480 - 4550 B.C.) When Adam and Eve left the Garden the journey began, and so we find ourselves a...