Poetry manuscripts, essays and related records

Typescripts of an essay on P.K. Page's The Metal and the Flower and correspondence related to AFM's contribution to a book on her work.   

Includes original typescript, notes, outlines and drafts.   

Photocopied typescript.   

Includes drafts manuscripts and typescripts of poems, including "Ode to Don Delillo, "A Houseboat on the Styx","To the Moon," "Birds of North America" "Native Woman on a Subway", The Land of Colchis", "My Adventures Underground", "The Whale," "Stay Where you Are", "Mahoning", "Egypt's Land"etc. These 4 files were originally in one giant file. The archivist has separated them into four based on size. 

Uncertain if title on original folder is accurate to the contents.  Includes annotated draft manuscripts and typescripts of poems including "The Five Foot Shelf", 'Beirut", "The Castle", "The Limits", "Ode to Satire", etc.

A collection of poem drafts was clipped together and says "Draft of recent poems for revision: 23 Nov 1990" and "Drafts; February 1988 (Working copies made from manuscript drafts of the previous three years)

Poem is on note cards with poetic lines.

Drafts of unfinished and unpublished narrative work from the early to mid 1980s.   

Draft typescript.   

(includes "days of 1989" and other writings)

Al's copy

Ken's copy

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  

 Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.   

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.

Notebook contains mostly course notes.  See Series 1 for related records.

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.   

Contains course notes. See Series 1 for related records.   

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.   

Contains course notes.  See Series 1 for related records.

Contains course notes. See Series 1 for related records.   

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notes from October 2014.     

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notes from October 2014.  

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and the context of the notebook from October 2014

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.   

   Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  

Contains course notes. See Series 1 for related records.   

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.    

 Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.     

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notes from October 2014.     

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notes from October 2014.   

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.     

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.     

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of this notebook and the following 5x8 sized notebooks from October 2014.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.    

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.      

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.  

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.      

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.      

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.      

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.      

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.        

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.    

Includes a description provided by A.F. Moritz on the content and context of the notebook from October 2014.  See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.      

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.

See Series 1 for related records.   

See File 4-15 (2015.01) for an overview description of the 5x8 notebooks.  

A note on the content and context of the lab notebooks was provided by A.F. Moritz and describes them as follows:  "The series of large U of T notebooks contain a large number of 1) drafts of published poems ; 2) drafts of poems never typed, revised and published ; 3) notes and plans for writing projects ; 4) philosophical reflections ; 5) reflections on literature and on a little of my reading this period ; 6) narrations of personal events and reflections on them ; 7) dram narrations ; etc."

More information about this series of notebooks is provided in a note in this file.

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.       

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.         

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.         

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.  

A note from A.F. Moritz explains that this notebook is of a different type but that it belongs with the the large lab notebooks. 

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

See File 7-1 (2015.01) for a description of lab notebook contents.   

Contains a note written by A.F. Moritz in October 2014 regarding content of file.    

Includes a note from A.F. Moritz written on 22 October 2014 about the content and context of the file.  

Reads from front to back, then back to front except where noted.   

Typed manuscript of yet uncollected poems included in an early manuscript entitled "The House's Fallin the Permanenence of Summer", but excluded when poems from that manuscript became the published book: The Newer Measures [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Additional manuscript of uncollected poems coeval with "Sequence", known as "Allegory of the Wind" [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Additional manuscript of uncollected poems from the same period as "Allegory of the Wind" [Description provided by A.F.Moritz]  

Typecript.  "Allegory of the Wind" with corrections.   

Manuscript of yet uncollected poems from "The Sentinel" period not included in that book. [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Early versions of poems in Mahoning and a 1992 self-assessment.  Additionally a Moritz family history/family tree [Description provided by A.F.Moritz]  

Manuscript and notes of a translation of Breton's "L'air de l'eau" (with David Lenson). Draft translation, approximately 1974 ; AFM's corrections, approximately 1985 [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Manuscript of "The Poet's Garden" peoms and essay related to the Rodney King riots, unpublished. [Description provided by A.F.Moritz]  

Edited manuscript unpublished poems plus "In the Terminal Ward" which appeared in The Ruined Cottage with new changes.  [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]

Drafts of unpublished "Stupra" poem project. [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Drafts of unpublished poems from the 1980s and previous.  [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]    

Very large handwritten manuscript of unpublished poems. [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]      

Typed and handwritten manuscripts of poem includes "Landings" sequence (1985-90), "Dialogue of Greed and Princes" (1977-83) , "Song of the Open Road" (1974-78) and unpublished drafts. [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]    

Mostly handwritten manuscripts of unpublished poems from approximately 1988-1991. [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]    

Miscellaneous manunscripts of unpublished poems, plans for poems, drama stage directions, poems written during research on Emma Goldman, "Above a Store" (1985), later drafts of peoms written in 1985, "Face on Mars" (1990-94), "Don Juan" poem suite, "Pleasures of Speed" from notes on trip to Montreal with Blaise (1990). [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]    

Aborted attempt on book on nudity with photos of various 'pinups' [Description provided by A.F.Moritz]

Sentinel translations by Susana Walkd and Beatriz Hausner with A.F. Moritz's corrections [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Poems in Spanish, translations from Sentinel and uncollected poems by Beatriz Hausner [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Juan Jimon Rimenez translation work [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Two narrative poems that serve as the very early drafts of the third section of Sequence. [Description provided by A.F. Moritz].  

Handwritten draft of poem which became the closing poem of Night Street Repairs [Description provided by A.F.Moritz]  

Includes correspondence regarding final proofing.  Manuscript has markups from editor and from A.F. Moritz throughout.   

2nd pages and final cover, markup, with focus on 'notes' section.   

From Malahat selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2015 [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

Notes towards a poem on Bolaño's Antwerp (on napkins).

Notes towards a translation of Hölderlin's "Mein Eigentum."  

First draft of poem, "the meaning sings in the spoken song"  

Preface to Jeff Bien's book In a Time of No Song. Includes this manuscript, correspondence with Jeff Bien and Rafi Aaron.

Notes toward cover comment for Shaving Off His Face by Shane Nielson.  

Poem or sketch toward one, found in a copy of Early Poems [Description provided by A.F. Moritz]  

'The Knight : For Gordon Lightfoot" Notes toward a first draft of the poem with photocopies from pocket notebook 12 April 2014- 18 June 2014 as reference. 

See Series 8, File 5-13 for final publication.

Includes notes towards Mahoning on the back of the 2nd last page.   

"Heaven" - original version of the poem "The Volcano"  

Drafts of translations of Juan Ramon Jimenez, poems from Eternidades (1916-17) written while attending conference in Nicaragua. [Description provided by AFM]  

Poems written between The New Measure and Sequence considered for Allegory of the Wind. Revisions of drafts.    [Description provided by AFM]

Poems excluded from The New Measures and then revised afterward in 2014, this manuscript reflects any revisions made [Description provided by AFM].  

Notes towards talk on Beauty and Lemon Hound essay for Sue Sinclair [Description provided by AFM].  

Draft from 16 February 2015. Superseded by draft with additions and corrections made in Granada, 16-23 February.  

Garth Martens notes toward cover commentary and Mix tape draft.   

Draft typescript.  Published in 50+ Poems for Gordon Lightfoot (The Old Brewery Bay Press, 2014).   See Series 8, 2015.08, 5-13 for a copy of the anthology.

Draft typescripts.   

Draft typescript.  

For submission to the Yale Review.  

Notebook contains handwritten notes, drafts of poems, etc.   

Draft typescript of first completed manuscript of poems written since heart operation.   

Draft typescript.   

Two draft typescripts.   

Draft typescript.  

Draft typescript.   

Poems written after surgery on 8 August 2014. Draft typescripts.   

Draft typescript. See 1-28  

Draft typescript.   

Final draft typescripts.  Poems and notes.   

Draft typescript.   

Draft typescript  

Draft typescripts of the following poems: "The One Who Answers the Call,"  "Stars," "Never to Be Exhausted," "Gift, Distance," "Fair and Dark," "Tour and Prospect," "Silence," "Meaning Singing," "The Great Project," and "Mirror on Fire," "The Ram," "A Book Travels," "Who Is It I Address," "The Ones," "On Reading the First Pages of Salamandra," "A Star," "Cynosure," "Music," and "The Companion," "Palm Tree with Romeo and Juliette," "Plum, Words, Mind," "Isola," "Some Repose," "One Dawn or Many," "Monk and Onlooker," "There Is," "The Task," "The Scream," "Definition of Thinking," 'Origin of the Image," "The Implement," "To Dante," "His Loved One's Interpellation by a Ghost," "Near the Water," "Encounter," "Battered by the Turbulence of a Passing," "The Relation of 1790," "Etiology of Compulsion," "Narrative of a Shipwreck," "The Coming Forth of Dawn," "The Status of Concrete Details in Nightmare," "A Slender Presence," and "Introduction to Eden."

These poems were submitted to publications but we not published. 

Draft typescript.   

Draft (early version) typescript.   

Draft typescript.   

Two copies of final draft typescripts of poems "Near the Water," Wake," and "The Mural."

"Wake'" and "The Mural" were published in Volta (USA, Online) October 2015.

Final draft typescripts of the following poems: "A Hand's Breadth," "Palm Tree with Romeo and Juliet," "This Day," "Plum, Words, Mind," "You Can't Have What You Want," "Isola," "Some Repose," "One Dawn of Many," and "Monk and Onlooker."

"A Hand's Breadth," "This Day" and "You Can't Have What You Want" were accepted 28 June 2014.

Epignosis Quarterly is an online literary and arts journal.  

Final draft typescript for George Walker's response-poem anthology, 2015 (Frog Hollow Press, Victoria. Ed. Shane Nielson)  

Draft typescripts of poems: "The Wind That Blows Through Winter,"  "Entrances," "A Definition of Pity," "There Is," "Plum, Words, Mind," "The Eye," "This Day," "The Task," "Hermes," 'Palm Tree with Romeo and Juliet," "Poetry," "A Hand's Breadth," and "The Scream,"

The following poems were accepted: "The Wind That Blows Through Winter,"  "Entrances" (also accepted in Best Canadian Poetry 2015), "A Definition of Pity," "The Eye" (also accepted in Poetry Daily), "Hermes," and "Poetry,"

Final draft typescripts of poems: "As Far As You Know," "To the Reader," "Naked to All Interpretation," "Silence and Song," "Glimpse," 'Terrorism," "The Ram" and "Baltimore May 2015."

Final draft typescripts of poems:  "The Encounter," "Creating Despair," "The Myth," "Rhythm of Time," ""Encounter," "Battered by the Turbulence of a Passing," 'The Relation of 1790," 'Etiology of Compulsion," "Narrative of a Shipwreck," "The Coming Forth of Dawn," "The Status of Concrete Details in Nightmare," "A Slender Presence," and "Introduction to Eden."

"'Rhythm of Time"  was published in the Yale Review.

"Creating Despair" was published in Resonance Café Reading Series website, Fall 2015.

2 copies of draft typescripts.  Audeamus is the literary journal of Massey College. Submission consists of 7 poems: "Troubadour," "Silence," "Meaning Singing," "The Great Project," "The Same River," "Her Epoch," and "Mirror on Fire."

Final draft typescripts of poems: "The One Who Answers the Call," "Congestion," "Stars," "Never to Be Exhausted," "Gift, Distance," "Fair and Dark," "Tour and Prospect," "Silence," "Meaning Singing," "The Great Project," and "Mirror on Fire."  Acta Victoriana is the Victoria College literary publication.    "Congestion" was published in the Spring 2016 edition.

Final draft typescripts of "The Encounter," "Creating Despair," "The Myth," and "Rhythm of Time." 

"Creating Despair" was accepted in October 2015. 

Resonance Café website is edited and directed by Klara du Plessis.

Final drafts of poems:  "The Encounter," "The Myth," 'Rhythm of Time," "The Dearest Freshness," "Always Now Farther Away," "Pileated Woodpecker," and "Origin of the Image."

"Pileated Woodpecker," "The Myth" and "Always Now Farther Away," were published in The High Window #2, Spring 2016 (UK) 

The High Window is quarterly poetry publication.

Draft typescripts of works converted from original Wordperfect documents.   

Draft typescript. Converted from Wordperfect.  

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document 

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.  Published as Houseboat on the Styx, Ekstasis Editions (1998)

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.   

Draft typescripts converted from the original Wordperfect document.      

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.       

Draft typescripts.  

Draft typescripts of multiple poems including "Birds of North America," "Flight to Vancouver," "Riff Raff," "The World," "The Sentinel," "Joseph," "Reunion of War Amputee and Field Surgeon," etc.

Draft typescripts of various poems including "A Survival," "The Knot," 'Inheritance,"  "The Circus," etc.

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.   

Draft typescripts of poems converted from the original Wordperfect documents.       

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.       

Typed notes converted from original wordperfect document.

Typed notes converted from the original Wordperfect document. Notes are by days (ie. Day 1).

Draft typescripts of poems "Introduction to Eden" and "A Battle"   

Draft typescript of a description "Words with Power?" by A.F. Moritz and poem "Full Circle - i.m. Northrop Frye" 

Draft typescripts of poems that were eventually published in Event, Poetry, USA, The Fiddlehead, Riddle Fence, Literary Review of Canada, Hamilton Stone Review (USA, online) and The Saving Banister.   Original title of file from AFM was: aaa New Book 09 publ.

Draft typescripts of poems including: "News," "The Volcano," "Painting and Poem" (published eventually in Riddle Fence), "Men and Windmills," Creative Memory," "The Tomb," etc.  

Draft typescript.  Eventually published as Night Street Repairs (Anansi, 2004)

Annotated drafts of poems.  Some poems are written on napkins.   

Draft typescripts of poems including:  "Lost," "News," "Near the Water," "Hermes," "Christmas Eve," 'In Arizona," "The Tomb," etc.  

Includes rough notes and draft typescripts of essays on a variety of topics, including American politics, race relations in the US and teaching English literature, etc.   

Handwritten poems written between May 2015 and February 2016.  

Small notebook with handwritten notes.   

Draft typescripts of versions of essay "Thoughts on Poetry and Loss" (First version "Loss in Poetry"), draft with comments by Johanna Skibsrud and related correspondence.  

Published copy of Jeff Bien's In a Time of No Song - Introduction by A.F. Moritz.  Toronto: Exile Editions, 2015.   

Includes typescript of poem and correspondence from the editors of The Best Poetry in English, 2016 regarding the poem's entry in the volume.  

Handwritten poems, notes  

Notebook with handwritten poems - June to August 2016  

Notebook includes handwritten notes, poem drafts, journal entries, memorabilia, etc. Commonplace book - February 2011 to August 2015

Handwritten notes, poems on sheets of paper.   

Note from AFM: "All original or copied/organized originals of poems and notes from all 2 post-operation books 1) Meng, 2) As Far as you Know and 3) Untitled Books  

Handwritten notes, poem drafts from the 1980s and 1990s with later notes from 2013.   

Typescript of book of poems written during the New Measures period. New unpublished work 2016.

Draft typescript.  

Two draft typescripts.  

Draft typescript.  Title of poem different than title provided on file listed.  

Draft typescript.   

Draft typescript.  Poems include: "Stays," "Knowledge," "At Erie," "The Question With Memory," "I'm" "The Forest," and 6 untitled poems.

Draft typescript. Written by AFM for Johanna Skibsrud.  

For Volta [noted by AFM].  Two draft typescripts.  Second has edits by Johanna Skibsrud.

Written by AFM for League of Canadian Poets 47th Poetry Festival and Conference.  Four draft typescripts (one with revisions and one with edits by DG).  Two copies of final version (emailed to Prairie Fire Magazine). See Series 9, 2015.08 6-8 for related records.

Typescript of poem.    

Two draft typescripts. 

Draft typescript.

Draft typescript.  Faculty Forum is a feature in Vic Report, the magazine of Victoria College.

Draft typescript.  

Draft typescript. Possibly for use in a course offered at Victoria College with the same name.   

Draft typescript.  Blurb is for Things Seen and Unseen (2017).

Draft typescript written by AFM.   

Draft typescript. Introduction was written by AFM for Ludwig Zeller's The Rules of the Game : Selected Shorter Poems 1952-2008 (2012). 

Draft typescript in the form of a letter.   

Draft typescripts converted from the original Wordperfect documents.  

Introduction for Fetherling's Plans Deranged by Time (2012)  

Draft typescript.   

Draft typescript.  Review was published in Books in Canada under the title "Exemplars of Possibility."

Draft typescript.  

Draft typescript.   

Draft typescripts. Includes poems: "Wind Farm,"Knowledge," "At Erie," "The Question with Memory," "I'm,"The Forest," "You Can't Have What You Want," "Nature Poetry," "Farm Engulfed," "Painting and Poem," "Wholeness," "The Blackbird," "Creative Memory," "The Ode," and 6 untitled poems.

See 1-38. 

Final draft typescript.  

Final draft typescripts of poems: "The Ram," "Interstellar," "A Book Travels," "Who Is It I Address," "The Ones," "On Reading the First Pages of 'Salamandra'," "A Star," "Never to Be Exhausted," "Cynosure," "Music," and "The Companion."

"Interstellar" and "The Companion" were published in the Audeamus Spring 2016 edition.  

Final draft typescripts of poems: "The Dearest Freshness," "Always Now Farther Away," "Pileated Woodpecker," "Origin of the Image," "The Implement," "To Dante," " His Loved One's Interpellation by a Ghost," "The Clock," "The Myth," "Prayer to Dawn."

"The Clock" was accepted.  

Final draft typescripts of poems: "Rhythm of Time," "The Dearest Freshness," "Origin of the Image," "The Implement," "To Dante," and "His Loved One's Interpellation by a Ghost."  

Consists of 'journals' originally from the AFM's computer that comprise of draft typescripts of poems, translations, and submissions for magazines.    

Draft typescripts converted from the original Wordperfect documents.       

Draft typescript converted from an original Wordperfect document potentially entitled METRIC.  

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.       

Draft typescript.  

Drafts of poems published in Event, Misunderstandings Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Hamilton Stone Review, Riddle Fence, and Literary Review of Canada.   

Draft typescript converted from original wordperfect document. Rest on the Flight into Egypt was published by Brick Books in 1999.

Final draft typescript, converted from the original Wordperfect document, of press release for Rest on the Flight into Egypt published by Brick Books in 1999.

Draft typescript converted from the original Wordperfect document.  Night Street Repairs was published by Anansi in 2004

Draft typescript. A.F. Moritz intro for Oxford University Press' 70 Canadian Poets, edited by Gary Geddes  

Draft typescript of poems including: "Lakes and Oceans," "Farm Engulfed," "Adam," "Eglantine," etc.  Originally file title was aaa New Book 09 mag.

Draft typescripts of poems.  Original file titles provided by AFM were Anansi 2012, Anansi 2013 3, Anansi 2012 2  and Edmonton Poetry Festival material but the archivist was unable to find file separation places as the poems were all filed in one folder. 

Final draft typescripts of poems that were eventually published.   

Draft typescripts of poems including: "Ransom,"  "Fulfilled," "Hermit and Crow," "An Old Saw," etc.

Draft typescript.   

Draft typescripts of copies of poems originally written in a notebook.  Includes "A Visit to the Bird House," "The Definition," "Listening to Bees," "Monologue of Self to Soul," etc.  

Draft typescript.   

Commonplace book August 2015-April 2016. Includes journal, notes, writing.  

Draft typescript of The Anonymous Life of Meng with the Surviving Fragments. by A. F. Moritz  

Draft typescript, refined July 2016 - unpublished.   

New yet unpublished poems.

Handwritten notes of poems and reflections yet unpublished. 23 November 2016 to 12 February 2017  

Notes, new unpublished poems, reflections during trip to Fringe Festivals in London and Edinburgh, August 2017.

Small notebook containing handwritten poems and reflections yet unpublished. October 20 to November 20, 2016  

Pocket notebook of handwritten poems and reflections not yet published. Includes one translation of JR Jimenez. 

Commonplace book of new drafts of poems, essays, reflections. Mid 2016 to January 2017.

Handwritten notes.

Handwritten poem with changes. A new version of a poem for Meng (ongoing project).

Typewritten drafts of poems with handwritten edits. New, unpublished poems.

Draft typescript with edits to poem in progress, "He Would Have Coursed the Doe".

Loose typed poems and translations with handwritten changes.

Unpublished manuscript of poems from The Sentinel period now being reconsidered. ms. notes and revisions made by AFM between September 2016 and Spring 2017.

Manuscript of non-Sentinel poems from 1998-2007, a gathering of previously published and previously unpublished poems. Currently being used to find an ordering and a title for a new publication (post-selected).

Two poems written on napkins. November 2016.

Notebook containing drafts of poems and reflections. Includes loose page of writing (#122) from the morning of AFM's mother's funeral.

Commonplace book of new drafts of poems, essays, and reflections from January to October 2017, including initial lists of poems to include in The Sparrow.

Commonplace book of new drafts of poems, essays, reflections from 16 October 2017 to 15 July 2018.

A close to "Perfect" copy of The Sparrow, in which are written extensive notes and comments on almost every single poem in the collection. Some notes are reminiscences upon a poem's original composition or discussions of how it strikes the author. Other notes draw links between the poems across the collection as a whole or how they resonate with one another now.

This manuscript is the first attempt at making connections between the poems in The Sparrow.

This manuscript is the second attempt at making connections between the poems in The Sparrow.

Correspondence, notes and handwritten poems and lists of poems documenting the cooperative process of selecting poems for The Sparrow.

Old poems typed out as a way of preparing to collect poems for The Sparrow.

Final revisions to the perfect copy of The Sparrow.

Correspondence regarding the cover copy of The Sparrow.

Correspondence, contracts, acceptance letters and information regarding the preface of The Sparrow.

Text of Sue Sinclair's preface to The Sparrow with AFM's marginalia.

A letter from Theresa Moritz and some printed materials from the opera related to Big Blue Notebook #18.

New poetry and notes written in a small portable notebook.

8 poem drafts written in a small notebook in the fall of 2017.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry and philosophy written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

Photocopy of handwritten poem to Juan Ramon Jimenez with some handwritten notes.

New poetry written by hand.

Original handwritten MS and first typed draft.

Typed first revision of poem.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry, "Poem on the Unknown History", written by hand.

Edited, revised and rearranged version of ongoing project, "Meng".

Towards comparing Ellul's Oratorio with his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Early short version and first full length version of essay for International Jacques Ellul Conference.

Late stage versions of essay for International Jacques Ellul Conference.

Final revisions and perfect copy of essay.

Revised versions of poems from the MS As Far as You Know from early January 2018, printed with poems with handwritten revisions.

Printed poems with handwritten revisions.

Full, up-to-date version of the poetry manuscript As Far as You Know.

Revisions to poems in As Far as You Know as well as Allegory of the Wind and Allegory of the Wind Supplement made between Jan-March 2018.

Revisions made to poems from the Allegory of the Wind Supplement manuscript between October and December 2017.

Extensive revisions made to the Allegory of the Wind manuscript between October and December 2017.

Full, up-to-date version of the poetry manuscript of Allegory of the Wind Supplement with revisions from 2017-2018. Some poems published in magazines.

Full, up-to-date version of the poetry manuscript of Allegory of the Wind with many revisions from 2017-2018. Some poems published in magazines.

AFM's work on the blurb for Darren Bifford's False Spring. 

AFM's work towards the preface for Fiorito's City Poems as well as the finished copy.

Draft review of The Essential John Reibetanz for The Fiddlehead, prepared September 2018.

Handwritten draft of a "Sketch of an Author's Note" for The Art of Surgery.

Commonplace book containing 197 pages of new poems, AFM's commentary and changes to those poems, translations, essays and philosophical reflections from June to October 2019.

Commonplace book containing 197 pages of new poems, AFM's commentary and changes to those poems, new translations, essays and philosophical reflections from July 2018 to June 2019. Includes reflections, poems and souvenirs gathered during his move and in his role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

Most recent manuscript of AFM's forthcoming book of poems, As Far as You Know. Changes in red type are those agreed upon in consultation with editor Michael Redhill.

Michael Redhill's correspondence and handwritten commentary on AFM's forthcoming book of poems. Also includes AFM's handwritten list of poems in AFAYK appearing in journals, etc. and back and forth on acknowledgements.

36 pages of handwritten work, mostly new poem drafts written while travelling, often with AFM's commentary or later notes upon those poems, and some translations. Additional notes on an upcoming trip to China, philosophizing en route to Montreal and a few days of journaling in early fall 2018.

91 pages of handwritten work, mostly new poem drafts written while travelling, often with AFM's commentary or later notes upon those poems, and several translations. Journal entries and reflections during the trip to China are also included.

70 pages of handwritten work, largely new poem drafts, many of which include second and third drafts of a poem "in progress", and translations. Several prose descriptions of AFM's philosophy of poetry or responses to reading which define and redefine that philosophy.

New poetry written and edited by hand, "I was stretched out on the ground." Translation of a sonnet from Juan Ramón Jiménez's Sonetos espirituales. Sketched 15 Oct 2015, revised on verso 23 June 2017. Further revised in Big Blue Notebook #21.

New poetry written by hand. 

New poetry written by hand on a napkin.

New poetry written by hand. 

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand.

New poetry written by hand including several sketches, notes, revisions and typed draft.

Three poems revised by hand and two re-typed for inclusion in As Far as You Know in May 2019: "Terrorism", "Names of Birds", and "All One Limit".

"A Slender Presence" chosen for inclusion in Best Canadian Poetry 2019, includes all correspondence and AFM's final note regarding the poem.

New poetry written by hand, revised and typed, as well as related correspondence. Poem to become a plaque to be located at Bloor and Gladstone in Toronto as part of the BIA improvements. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

New poem written by hand, revised and typed, "Days of July: The Danforth", composed in 2019 and read at the City of Toronto's commemoration of the 2018 Danforth shooting. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

New poem written by hand, revised and typed, "Walk with Excellence 2019", composed between April 10-23, 2019, and read at the June 11, 2019, student event and march of the same name. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

New poem written by hand, revised and typed, with opening remarks, "The Current of Sugar", composed in May 2019 for the Redpath Sugar Doors Open Toronto event and communication of the 60th anniversary of the official opening of the Redpath Toronto waterfront plant by Queen Elizabeth. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate. Redpath rescinded the invitation on grounds that the poem was not celebratory enough.

New poem written by hand, revised and typed, "Their Charge of Love", composed in March and April 2019 and read at the City of Toronto's memorial for the 2019 Yonge Street van attack on April 23, 2019. Part of AFM's role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

AFM's contribution to the memorial of Joe Rosenblatt and related research.

33 pages of handwritten poems, notes and thoughts written during Calgary Word Fest and Banff in October 2012. Includes drafts of two new poems, notes on Octavio Paz and other ideas and doings.

Correspondence and notes regarding cover copy for Keith Garebian's Against Forgetting.

Typewritten final copy and handwritten notes for Marc Di Saverio's Crito Di Volta, Guernica Editions.

Cover copy for Chris Hutchinson, In the Vicinity of Riches.

Jacket copy and correspondence regarding James Wood's Building a Kingdom.

Loose tear sheets of AFM's drawings and sketches from the past several years with a few handwritten thoughts.

A few sketches with some handwritten notes.

A few sketches with some handwritten notes.

Sketches as well as several handwritten notes and lists.

A hand-printed edition of Moritz's Music and Exile chapbook/fine-press book from Dreadnaught Press. One of an edition of 200 copies.

An unbound edition of AFM's book America The Picaresque.

A comic limerick-style poem written by AFM and Theresa Moritz.

AFM's introduction to Kenn Kwint's Sugar included in a small press chapbook from Shore Press.

A sheaf of handwritten notes and responses inserted into the front of AFM's copy of World Literature 52:3, Summer 1978, a special issue on Milosz.

An essential commonplace book containing 198 pages of new poems, AFM's commentary and changes to those poems, new translations, essays and philosophical reflections from October 2019 to March 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. Includes the final work on his newest collection of poems, As Far As You Know, as well as poems drafted and edited in his role as Toronto's Poet Laureate.

An essential commonplace book containing 198 pages of new poems, AFM's commentary and changes to those poems, new translations, essays philosophical reflections from March to June 2020. Includes thoughts upon the publication of As Far As You Know, as well as reflections, poems and souvenirs gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic, and first drafts of poems and talks written in response to the pandemic and presented in the role of Toronto's Poet Laureate. Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the commonplace books have been the primary format for composition.

Commonplace book containing 198 pages of new poems, AFM's commentary and changes to those poems, translations, essays and philosophical reflections from June to August 2020. Includes reflections, poems and souvenirs gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic, and first drafts of poems and talks written in response to the pandemic and presented in the role of Toronto's Poet Laureate. Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the commonplace books have been the primary format for composition.

Third pages of As Far As You Know used as an unbound copy for AFM's interpretive notes. Includes handwritten corrections, interpretations and histories of each poem along with associations between the poems.

Includes The Poet's Garden, the poem and essay written in 1992 in early drafts but without the original introduction and codas, and an early version of The Poet's Garden summer 2020 revision with further pencil corrections.

Further revisions, as of October 2020, of The Poet's Garden, to be published in 2021 by Gordon Hill Press.

Cover copy written for Lily Wang, Peter Dubé and Miller (Sylvia) Adams.

Drafts and final copy of "Thoughts in Time of Plague", requested and printed in the Toronto Star in response to the early COVID-19 pandemic. Poet Laureate related publication.

The final handwritten edits to AFM's piece for his friend, artist and poet Ludwig Zeller, for Exile 43.1.

Proof sheets of Rest on the Flight into Egypt.

An essential commonplace book containing 198 pages of new poems, commentary and changes to those poems, new translations, essays, and philosophical reflections from August 2020 to June 2021. Also includes some additional mementoes (tickets, cards, early publications) from the publishing industry in AFM’s early career and brief comments on those mementoes.

Poem draft on note pages.

Poem draft on note page.

Poem written on loose-leaf paper beginning "I snoop across the shoulder...", composed 5 Mar 2020.

Poem written on loose-leaf paper beginning "In my house, I am home...", composed 16-17 Mar 2020.

Three loose-leaf pages composed 21 April 2020, marked as "Homage to Ungaretti."

Poem written on loose-leaf paper beginning "When I read...", composed 16-22 April 2020.

Poem written on loose-leaf paper beginning "And you'll see that I am not", composed 28 or 29 April 2020.

Four-page poem written on loose-leaf paper beginning "It was stasis I always loved...", composed approximately 5 weeks before an operation in mid-May 2020.

Poem written on loose-leaf paper beginning "Have I betrayed  in my aloneness yes", composed 6 June 2020.

Poem written on four small loose-leaf pages composed 21 June 2020. A later draft of this poem and the story of its composition appear in Big Blue Notebook #25, pages 29-30.

Five-page draft poem written on loose-leaf paper, composed 2 July 2020.

Poem written on loose-leaf paper composed 14 Oct 2020 entitled “Injury.” Three pages in three sections.

Three-page poem, “From a Line by Charles Wright”, composed on loose-leaf paper 14 Oct 2020. The line is taken from the book, A Short History of the Shadow, Wright’s poem, “Is”, line one.

Nine-page draft poem beginning “Unhappy in Eden”, drafted on loose-leaf paper, composed 24 Oct 2020.

Three-page draft poem beginning “There are no caves here” drafted on loose-leaf paper, composed 20-21 Oct 2020.

One-page draft poem beginning “The secret of the choir, its white robes,” on loose-leaf paper, composed 17 Dec 2020.

Two-page draft poem beginning “The man and woman hate each other,” on loose-leaf paper, composed between 2020-21.

Diario #175, four-page draft poem beginning “Sea, until these pure nights of yours, my soul” on loose-leaf paper, composed between 2020-21.

One-page draft poem entitled “My Possessions” dated approximately 28 Feb 2021.

Three-page draft poem, dated 8 Mar 2021.

Three-page draft poem beginning, “I little understood that your old age/was God almost in you.” Dated 25 Mar 2021.

Eight pages of loose-leaf draft poetry work, containing approximately eight distinct poems and one page of German translation work.

One-page poem draft on loose-leaf paper entitled “For Espanto” dated 17 Sep 2021 with some editing in black ink added.

One-page poem draft on loose-leaf paper entitled “No Art” dated 18 Sep 2021.

One-page draft poem “Poetry Will Be Made By All” on loose-leaf paper composed approximately 30 Sep 2021.

Two-page draft poem beginning “Do we want a pure woman?” on loose-leaf paper, composed approximately 1 Oct 2021.

Two-page draft poem beginning “I did see you rose before I died,” composed approximately 5 Oct 2021 as noted on page two.

Four draft poems beginning, “Crux” [2 pages], “Prayer: Intention,” “You are constructed,” and “To refuse prophecy” on five pages of loose-leaf paper all composed 14 Oct 2021.

One-page handwritten poem on loose-leaf paper beginning “That cloud, that country,” discovered on 20 Oct 2021 in a UofT folder but composed weeks earlier.

Two pages of a handwritten poem draft composed end of Oct 2021.

One-page draft poem beginning, “Suddenly he touched my shoulder to say,” composed approximately late Oct 2021.

One-page draft poem beginning, “I cannot know now” dated “the wee hours of 1 Nov 2021”, with additional notes in pencil later that day.

Five-page draft poem beginning “It is good to be anti-intellectual” on loose-leaf paper, composed 2 Nov 2021.

One-page draft poem beginning “Everything leads to the recognition/that there must be an earth,” composed 4 Nov 2021.

One-page draft poem entitled “Here”, composed 4 Nov 2021.

Two-page draft poem beginning “November Eighth” on loose-leaf paper, composed 8 Nov 2021 at Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto.

Two-page draft poem beginning “This is the kind of poem” on loose-leaf paper, composed 9 Nov 2021 “at home in the evening.”

One-page poem draft composed on 9 Nov 2021 in Northrop Frye Hall 206.

Three-page draft poem entitled “Ode to Technology” and beginning, “I used to love touching the honeybee/in my poems,” composed in 2021.

Three pages of draft poetry in black ink, the first beginning, “There was a man/bleeding from his right ear,” composed in 2021.

Three pages of draft poetry in blue ink, the first beginning with a poem entitled “Someone/Some One” with other various sheets of work.

13 pages of handwritten poem drafts, approximately 10 distinct pieces, composed between 16 Nov 2021 and 7 Dec 2021.

88 pages of draft poems and transcribed second drafts, mostly in blue and green ink, dated from 2018 to approximately 2021 with changes, edits, and notes to those poems, mostly in red ink, dated July 2021 through Feb 2022.

Typescript file of AFM’s “short poems” project. Typewritten versions of many of the handwritten poems in previous files, and more, with changes and edits to those poems. Refer to the detailed handwritten note at outset of manuscript for more information.

Manuscript containing poems from the same period as AFM’s books Night Street Repairs and The Sentinel, but which were gathered in 2017 with thoughts of future publication.

AFM’s typescript of “The Poet’s Garden” as of 10 Oct 2020, the book that will become The Garden (2021), with some edits, correspondence, and contract information.

Typescript copy of the book that will become The Garden (2021), with AFM’s edits, as well as letters from George Elliott Clarke in response to and evaluating the essay and poem. Also contains notes on the search and discovery of a poet on Nightline episode from 1992.

Proofs of AFM’s book The Garden, with proofreader questions from Jeremy Luke Hill, publisher of Gordon Hill Press, and AFM’s handwritten changes to the proofs.

Book put together in 2015, with a large portion of handwritten corrections to the 2020 typescript here. This manuscript will become Narrative of a Shipwreck in 2021-2022.

Supplementary poems from the same period as Allegory of the Wind, tentatively omitted from what will become Narrative of a Shipwreck, with some fresh handwritten notes regarding publication.

Supplementary poems from Allegory of the Wind fully revised and transformed into the new typescript, Narrative of a Shipwreck, between Fall 2021 and Spring 2022. This is an extensively revised and expanded version of the former two texts.

Manuscript of completed poems from The New Measures era with amendments made before Fall 2019, with corrections made in May and June 2021 by hand.

The Scream file corrected and revised from Fall-Spring 2021-22 with several poems now in the main The Scream.

Manuscript of The Scream, newly revised and expanded form completed in Winter-Spring 2021-22.

AFM and Michael Redhill’s final edited manuscript version of the book as of Sep 2019, for use in copy-reading the typeset version to come in Oct/Nov.

As Far as You Know, first pages from publisher with AFM’s copy-editing due Nov 2019.

As Far as You Know, first pages, second printout with AFM’s copies and marks from all of the editors converged.

AFM’s second pages of the book with marked copy and notes.

AFM’s annotated copy of The Tradition (1996) with several notes and explanations penciled in while re-reading and for use at in-person events.

An essential commonplace book containing 197 pages of new poems, commentary and changes those poems, new translations, essays, and several philosophical reflections from July 2021 to December 2022, with a concluding entry from February 2023. Also includes some additional mementoes (tickets, cards, early publications, photographs, etc.) from across the span of AFM’s career, as well as commentary on poems written by Theresa Moritz in revising a manuscript. Additionally, the notebook includes ongoing reflections, poems and souvenirs gathered during the winding down of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book presents work from AFM's last few months as Toronto Poet Laureate.

A notebook containing 142 pages of original draft poems, primarily kept by AFM’s bedside, from late summer 2020 through 27 Nov 2021. The poems are written, dated, and to be read first via facing pages (recto, written in black ink and pencil) then back to front via the back pages (verso, written in blue ink).

Many of the poems are under selection to be included in a forthcoming publication, tentatively titled Great Silent Ballad (2024).

62 pages of original draft poems composed between 19 Dec 2022 and 14 Apr 2023. The two typed loose poems present additional revisions to the final poem in the notebook, “A Woman in the Painting But Not So”, and may be considered an example of AFM’s writing process.

Many of the poems are under selection to be included in a forthcoming publication, tentatively titled Great Silent Ballad (2024).

140 typed pages with hand revisions to 65 new poems. Some poems are presented in multiple drafts, revealing an ongoing revision process.

Many of the poems are under selection to be included in a forthcoming publication, tentatively titled Great Silent Ballad (2024).

Draft poems and fragments written in St. Michael’s Hospital.

Draft poem from late 2022.

Draft poem from January 2023.

Original copy of the declaration form submitted to receive the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit. The declaration was completed for The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019.

Contains:

1) A handwritten page of literary reminder notes to self, terms, foreign words, talking points, quotation locations for talks and course sessions. The first four poem titles at the top of the page are by Polish-American poet Czesław Miłosz, and the four poem titles below are by American poet Hilda Doolittle. Phrases with page numbers relate to the essay portion of The Garden by Mortiz.

2) Examples of “Ecstatic Poems” by Miłosz and Walt Whitman.

3) Lists of AFM’s newer poem titles grouped by themes.

4) Lists of poems grouped by theme.

A notebook containing 100 pages of original draft poems. Written from 9 March – 12 December 2022. Also contains handwritten notes of description and editing.

Many of these poems became part of the large collection of over 250 poems from which the contents of AFM’s forthcoming book, Great Silent Ballad (2024), were selected.

A small notebook containing 65 pages of original draft poems and a few translations, written from 21 May 2019 to December 2022 (primarily 2021-2022). Also contains handwritten notes of description and editing.

Many of these poems became part of the large manuscript of over 250 pages from which the contents of AFM’s forthcoming book, Great Silent Ballad (2024), were selected.

Notes, ideas and lists of poems to form the first full draft of AFM’s forthcoming book Great Silent Ballad (2024). To be used in conversation with Michael Redhill, who is acting as substantive editor.

Over 300 pages of typed, edited original poems under consideration for inclusion in AFM’s forthcoming book, Great Silent Ballad (2024). The first two pages mark AFM’s tentative list of poems and their order.

AFM marks, in two places, which poems in the group were written in notebooks within the 12-16 month period approaching July 2023 and which poems were composed between 2019 and 2022, albeit primarily between 2021-2022.

13 additional pages of typed drafts of poems to be considered for inclusion in Moritz’s forthcoming book from Anansi, Great Silent Ballad (2024). To be used in conversation with Michael Redhill, acting for the press as substantive editor.

The first tentative completed draft of Great Silent Ballad, to be handed to Michael Redhill. File includes AFM’s proposed ordering of the poems and sections, and approximately 100 pages of typed manuscript.

File contains the first revisions to the Great Silent Ballad manuscript (second version), including:

1) Michael Redhill’s September 5 correspondence evaluation of the manuscript with his list of poems to be cut and his list of 20 poems which he felt should be added from the 300-page collection. AFM accepted 9 of his 10 suggested deletions and 19 of his 20 suggested inclusions.

2) AFM’s handwritten log of discussion items and actions taken towards editing the manuscript in 1 page.

3) The September 2023 manuscript of poems with changes implemented by Redhill, with AFM’s handwritten changes and notes throughout in approximately 80 pages.

File contains the second revisions to the Great Silent Ballad manuscript (third version). This includes:

1) A 96-page annotated copy of the third version of the manuscript, finished on 6 October 2023. This copy has annotations about the poems that AFM made as he read for editing.

2) Eight lightly corrected pages from the second version of the manuscript, included as an addendum at the back of the manuscript.

3) Four pages of notes from the third revision, revised and replaced in the fourth version, sent to Kevin Connolly (House of Anansi Press poetry editor) and Michael Redhill (editor) on 24 November 2023.

File contains the third revisions to the Great Silent Ballad manuscript (fourth version). The includes:

1) One page of business cards and contact information for Anansi staff, including the 24 September 2024 publication date for AFM’s title.

2) Three handwritten pages by AFM detailing the contents of the book and the publication history of each title in various magazines.

3) AFM’s seven-page completed typewritten author publicity questionnaire for Anansi.

4) AFM’s five-page completed cover questionnaire for Anansi.

5) The Anansi copy editor Peter Norman’s 6-page query regarding the manuscript.

6) A 97-page fourth version of the manuscript, finished in November 2023. The end notes contain revisions by hand.

File contains the official “Second Pages”, the second set of proofs incorporating corrections from the first set of the Great Silent Ballad manuscript from April 2024. This includes:

1) Printed correspondence between AFM and Leslie Ahenda answering their proofreader’s questions.

2) Two handwritten pages of AFM’s notes on the “Second Pages”.

3) Anansi’s first print-formatted copy of Great Silent Ballad consisting of 136 numbered cover and interior pages, with a note by AFM on the back cover.

File contains three items:

1) A small black notebook with 3 pages of handwritten notes and ideas.

2) AFM’s typewritten translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Magic”.

3) A typewritten draft of AFM’s “Lao Tzu’s Spear” with a second page Russian translation by Svitlana Kobets. This poem was made for and published in an international anthology of poets writing in support of the arrested and imprisoned Russian punk girl-group Pussy Riot.