T.L. Morrisey

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

I'll take a "bad poem" over a "fake poem" any day...

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Some thoughts on bad poems and fake poems : Fake poems are contrived, pretending to be the real thing. But a bad poem is just what it i...
Friday, January 1, 2016

Happy New Year! 2016!

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Another year of living in one of the best countries in the world. Canada.
Monday, December 14, 2015

Girouard Avenue (2009) now at the Internet Archive

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2226 Girouard Avenue is the door on the right leading to the upstairs flat A few years ago I decided to digitize my out-of-print books and m...
Friday, December 11, 2015

November 2015 visit to Thomas D'Arcy McGee's mausoleum

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Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Proverb quoted by Chinua Achebe

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                         Until the lions have their own historians,                          the history of the hunt will always glorify ...
Friday, December 4, 2015

John Cage, "Autobiographical Statement", 1990

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I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, "You have to invent it." When I wish as now to tell of ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

A Place of Contemplation in Loyola Park

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Soccer, baseball, exercise machines, wading pools for children, these and other activities are available at Loyola Park...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

In a store window on Westminster Avenue

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In a store window on Westminster Avenue this morning...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Morning walk in Montreal West

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As of spring 2019 the Orchid Dry Cleaner (above) on Westminster Avenue has closed. The platform at Montreal West train station. ...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Poems are reports from inner space

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Squirrels screwing I will have to copy the essay here. Meanwhile,  Thank you to Mark McCawley for publishing this minimalist essay, "Po...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Poems of a Period, 1971 chapbook

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For a long time I have felt that some of us poets might be better served if we made our work available, online, and free. Of course, as long...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Patrick Morrissy and Mary Phelan, some of their descendants and relatives in Canada

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This is Beaubear Island, just off Newcastle and Chatham, NB;  Patrick Morrissy and some other members of the family worked here when they fi...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Remembering Girouard Avenue

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T his  is the history of the Morrissey family of Montreal during their residency at 2226 Girourd Avenue—it includes family history, ...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Darrell Morrisey essay on the Internet Archive

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The Morrisey Family: Darrell, TL, Syd & Clara outside Hazelbrae, 85 Churchill Avenue, Westmount I've just posted my essay on Darrell...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Review of The Irish Bull God by Sylvia Brinton Perera

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The Irish Bull God: Image of Multiform and Integral Masculinity Sylvia Brinton Perera, Inner City Books, Toronto, 2004, 155 pages ISBN 1-8...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Joseph Schull

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From Google Street View, Joseph Schull's mother's home on 11th Avenue in St. Eustache, QC, in 2009 Joseph Schull with Helene Gougeon...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

My friend, Paul Leblond, retires from teaching

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                                                                              Champlain College, St. Lambert Campus Here is one of...
Friday, April 25, 2014

"Sorrow Acre" by Isak Dinesen

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Sorrow Acre By Stephen Morrissey Many things influence a poet's development, for instance what we read can enlarge our c...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Review of In the Writers' Words, Conversations with Eight Poets

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Laurence Hutchman on Grand Blvd near Somerled, Montreal, March 2016                                   Laurence Hutchman  In the Writers...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

A long hard winter is coming to an end...

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