Articles and Reviews

Reviews

• Louise Carson, Review: Plague Days: Poetics in the time of COVID-19. Montreal Serai 33.2 (access a PDF version on the present site)
• Cynthia Coristine, Review: A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet by Stephen Morrissey. Poets.ca (access a PDF version on the present site)
• David R. Pitt, A Private Mythology, The Bull Calf Review, February 2015 (access an archived version on the present site)
• Bert Almon, "The Enterprise of Light", Private Mythology, The Montreal Review of Books, spring 2015 (access an archived version on the present site)
• Anne Burke, A Private Mythology, Poets.ca, January 2015 (access an archived version on the present site)
• gillian harding-russell, review of A Private Mythology in freefall magazine
• Anne Forrest, review of Girouard Avenue in Nuacht, May 2010
• Jody Freeman, Girouard Avenue, Montreal Serai, March 2010 (access an archived version on the present site)
• Bruce Whiteman, "Another Family Album, Girouard Avenue", Poetry Quebec, January 14, 2010
• Oksana Cueva, "Morrissey’s Poetic Memory: Girouard Avenue Recalls Montreal’s Irish Immigrant Experience," The Link, Concordia University, January 19, 2010
• Ian Colford, Mapping the Soul, Selected Poems 1978-1998, Dalhousie Review, 78/2, 1998.
• Alexander M. Forbes, Moonlight & Thresholds, review of Family Album, Canadian Literature # 137, summer 1993.
• William Blackburn, review of Family Album, Canadian Book Review Annual, 1990.
• Guy Birchard, "the hard part is heart", review of Divisions, Brick # 19, fall 1983.
• Isaac Osborn, review of Divisions, Rubicon no. 2, winter 1983-1984.
• Louis Dudek, "A Real Good Goosin'", review of The Vehicule Poets, Montreal Gazette, February 16, 1980.
• Introduction by Louis Dudek, The Trees of Unknowing, March 8, 1977.
• Michael Cameron, review of The Trees of Unknowing, Montreal Writer's Forum, 1979.
• West Coast Poetry Review, review of The Trees of Unknowing, January 1980.
• George Johnston, review of Family Album, The Antigonish Review, St. Francis Xavier University, Autumn 1990.
• Carolyn Zonailo, "Geography of Spirit: The Poetry of Stephen Morrissey," review article, 1992.
• Ken Norris, "Time and Place Slipping Past", review of Family Album, Poetry Canada Review, Winter 1992.
• Barry Dempster, review of Family Album, The League of Canadian Poets, Museletter, Spring 1993.
• George Elliott Clarke, "Bearing Witness", Books in Canada, Summer 1994.
• Ronald Charles Epstein, review of The Mystic Beast, Canadian Book Review Annual, 1998.

Interviews

• ROUNDTABLE: Carolyn Marie Souaid interviews Stephen Morrissey, Endre Farkas, and Ken Norris about the Vehicule days and beyond. Originally published in Mouse Eggs, 7 dozen mouse eggs, 3rd series, June 2022; access online. Download PDF.
• Interview with Sachi Nag of Artisanal Writer, 1 July 2022. Access online. Download PDF.
• Interview with Rachel Faber of MacLean's magazine, 21 August 2015
• Interview with Louis Rastelli for "Archive Montreal", 19 August 2015.
• Interview with Jeffrey Mackie, "The Tuesday Morning After" programme, CKUT-FM, McGill University, Montreal, conducted on 17 February 2015. Access the interview.
• Interview with Professor Jason Camlot, Department of English, Concordia University, Montreal, conducted on 12 June 2013. Access the interview.
• Interview with Professor Jason Camlot, Department of English, Concordia University, Montreal, conducted on 21 April 2013. Access the interview.
• Interview with John Herbert Cunningham, CKUW Radio, Winnipeg, broadcast on 9 May 2010. Access a recording of this interview.
• Interview with Poetry Quebec, www.poetryquebec.com, January 2010.
• Interview with Rob McLennan, 12 or 20 questions, January 2008.
• Interview with Ken Norris, Vehicule Days, ed. Ken Norris, Nuage Editions, Montreal, Qc, 1993.
• Interview on C.B.C. FM radio, “Brave New Waves”, host Augusta LaPaix, 1984 (A cassette recording of this review is included in Stephen Morrissey's literary papers).
• Interview with Vehicule Poets (Norris, Lapp, McAuley, Konyves, Gold, Farkas, and Morrissey) with Louis Dudek acting as interviewer, later published as A Real Good Goosin', Talking Poetics, Louis Dudek and The Vehicule Poets, Maker Press, Montreal, QC, 1981.
• Interview on Radio Canada (French), subject: "English Poets of Quebec" host Tom Konyves, broadcast early-1980s.
• Interview, "Arts and Eggs", CINQ-FM, 2 June 1979.

Newspaper articles

• Kristine Berey, Poets lend their voices for Indonesian earthquake relief, The Westmount Examiner, July 12, 2006, review.
• Carolyn Marie Souaid, Another Group of Seven, The Gazette, April 3, 2004, article.
• Talia Berman, This is Where We Used to Live, The McGill Daily, April 8, 2004, article.
• Montreal Gazette review of Vehicule Days, edited by Ken Norris, 1984.
• Frye, Dudek Bless NDG Poet, Review of Divisions, The Monitor, August 21, 1984.
• "Three Canadian Poets to read at coffeehouse", The Press-Republican, Plattsburg, New York, October 17, 1997.
• "Poetic musing abounds at 'Lovers and Others'", Anna Mattiuzzo, The McGill Tribune, October 19, 1999.
• NDG Poets Feel 'Write' at Home Here, Nancy Snipper, The Monitor, October 2000.

Articles & Essays by Stephen Morrissey

• Review of South China Sea, A Poet's Autobiography, by Ken Norris. Periodicities: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; access online. Download PDF.
• "Starting Out From Vehicule Art", 2022. Spoken Web Blog. Access online. Essay.
• Review of Susan Ouriou, ed., and Christelle Morelli, trans., Languages of Our Land, Indigenous Poems and Stories from Quebec; Langues de Notre Terre, Poèmes et Récits Autochtones du Québec (Banff: Banff Centre, 2014), in The Malahat Review; (access in PDF)
• A Tribute to Louis Dudek. A speech prepared for the Louis Dudek Tribute held in the Writers' Chapel at St. Jax Church, Montreal, on 12 October 2018.
• "The First Person in Literature," in Eternal Conversations: Remembering Louis Dudek, ed. Sonja Skarstedt, Aileen Collins, and Michael Gnarowski (Montreal: DC Editions, 2004); (access in PDF)
• "My friend, Paul Leblond, retires from teaching," 2014; (access online)
• "Remembering Keitha MacIntosh," 2012; (access online)
• Remembering Artie Gold (Coracle Press: Montreal, 2007); (download in PDF)
• Review of Sylvia Brinton Perera, Queen Maeve and Her Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstasy, Addiction, and Healing (New York: Carrowmare Books, 1999); (access online)
• Review of Sylvia Brinton Perera, The Irish Bull God: Image of Multiform and Integral Masculinity (Toronto: Inner City Books, 2004); (access online)
• Review of James Hollis, The Archetypal Imagination (Texas A&M University Press, 2000); (access online)
• Review of two books by James Hollis: Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves (New York: Gotham Books, 2007); What Matters Most: Living A More Considered Life (New York: Gotham Books, 2009); (access online)
• "Towards an authentic voice in poetry, 5 statements", Urban Graffiti, June 2015; essay
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• James Hollis, Hauntings, Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives, Chiron Publications, 2013, published in the Newsletter of the C.G. Jung Society of Montreal, winter 2014; review
• "Darrell Morrisey, a forgotten Beaver Hall artist", published at The Internet Archive, 2012; essay
• "Continuing Continuation, on Louis Dudek", Urban Graffiti, 2013; essay (access an archived version on the present site
• "Reading Louis Dudek's 'Continuation': An introduction to a major Canadian poem", Montreal Serai, February 2013; essay (access an archived version on the present site)
• Laurence Hutchman, In the Writers' Words, Conversations with Eight Poets, Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2011, published at www.poets.ca, 2013; review (access an archived version on the present site)
• "A Poet's Journey: Notes on poetry and what it means to be a poet", published in Poetry Quebec, 2009; essay
• "Whatever Else Poetry May Be, It is the Breaking of Silence That Perpetuates Evil", published in Poetry Quebec, November 2009; essay
• Remembering Artie Gold, chapbook published by Coracle Press for the memorial gathering for Artie Gold, held at The Word Bookstore on April 14, 2007; memoir.
• The Vehicule Poets: Recollections, by Endre Farkas, Ken Norris, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, and Artie Gold, Stephen Morrissey, 2003, published in Language Acts: Anglo-Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century, ed. J. Camlot and T. Swift, Vehicule Press, 2007; memoir.
• Review of James Hollis's Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, November 2006; review.
• Review of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing, www. PoetryReviews.ca, May 2006. Review.
• "The Last Modernist: Eldon Grier in Canada," review of Eldon Grier: Collected Poems, 1955-2000, Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, BC, 2001, published in The Pacific Rim Review of Books, Spring 2006.
• Review of Allan Hustak's Sir William Hingston: Montreal mayor, surgeon and banker, Morrissey Family History Newletter, issue # five, winter 2006.
• Postscript, "Returning to Hoolahan's Flats with Audrey Keyes," Hoolahan's Flat, Oxford Avenue, Coracle Press, 2005; article.
• "George Johnston: In Memoriam," Stanza, The League of Canadian Poets, fall 2004; essay.
• Review of James Hollis's Mythologems: Incarnations of the Invisible World, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, November 2004, review.
• Review of James Hollis's On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, January 2004; review.
• Preface, Remembering Hilde, Dennis Johnson, Coracle Press, 2004; article.
• "The First Person in Literature," Eternal Conversations: Remembering Louis Dudek, DC Books, Montreal, 2003; essay.
• "Dudek Tribute," Paragraphe Books, Montreal, April 23, 2001.
• Love Partners: Is there really a choice, lecture by Guy Corneau, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, February 2000; review. (view in PDF)
• The Preface from Mapping the Soul: Selected Poems, 1978-1998 (The Muses' Company, Winnipeg, 1998); essay.
• "Poetry and Shadow," presented at the League of Canadian Poets' Annual General Meeting, Toronto, 1996, and published in Museletter; essay.
• Montreal Poetry Tradition, Quebec Writers' Federation Newsletter, Autumn 1998
• Review of Robert Johnson's Balancing Heaven and Earth, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, March 2000.
• Review of James Hollis' Creating a Life, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, March 2001.
• Review of Janet O. Dallett's The Not-Yet-Transformed God, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, March 2002.
• Review of Sylvia Brinton Perera's Queen Maeve and Her Lovers: A Celtic Archetype of Ecstasy, Addiction, and Healing, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, August 2002.
• Love Partners: Is there really a choice, lecture by Guy Corneau, The C.G. Jung Society of Montreal Newsletter, February 2000; review
• "The Feminine Consciousness in Poetry: Carolyn Zonailo's The Taste of Giving, New and Selected Poems, 1995; review and essay.
• Self-censorship in Poetry , Museletter, December 1995; essay
• Feature Review of the 1991 Nominations For The Governor General's Award For Poetry (Domanski, Michaels, Fitzgerald, McKay, Lane), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 12, nos. 3 & 4, Summer 1992; review
• Purdy and Thesen , The Antigonish Review, nos. 85-86, Spring-Summer, 1991; review
• Barry Dempster: Spiritual Dilemma , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 1990; review
• Two letters to Cid Corman, 1983, 1990 (excerpts); letters.
• Two poets , Canadian Literature, nos. 122-123, Autumn-Winter 1989; review
• Six Poets , (Cathy Ford, R.A.D. Ford, Lee, Lochhead, Singleton, Wayman), The Antigonish Review, nos. 81-82, Spring-Summer 1990; review
• Grant Johnston, Mirrors , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 10, no. 4, Fall-Winter 1989-90; review
• Five Poets , (Oughton, Brown, Villemaire, Van Beek, Kemp), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 10, no. 4, Fall-Winter, 1989-90; review
• Bill Bissett, What We Have , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 10, no. 4, Fall-Winter 1989-90; review
• Three Poets , (Cooper, Marchand, Brett), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 10, no. 3, Winter 1989-90; review
• Four Poets , (Keeney, Estock, Harrison, Daurio), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 1989; review
• Borson and Crozier , The Antigonish Review, no. 79, Autumn 1989; review
• David McFadden, A Trip Around Lake Ontario , Matrix, no. 29, Fall 1989; review
• Christopher Dewdney, Immaculate Perception , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 9, no. 2, Winter-Spring 1988; review
• Three Poets , (Tynes, Radu, Kazuk), Canadian Literature, no. 119, Winter 1988; review
• Four Poets , (Stilma, Zeller, Levenson, Mayne), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Fall 1987; review
• Ernie James , Bellows, no. 2, Fall 1987; article
• Four Poets , (Venright, Noyes, Togane, Bellevue), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 8, nos. 2 & 3, Fall 1987; review
• John Newlove, The Night The Dog Smiled , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 8, nos. 2 & 3, Spring 1987; review
• Bouraoui, Echmosos , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 8, no. 1, Autumn 1986; review
• Four Poets , (Michaels, Van Wart, Campbell, Rhenisch), Poetry Canada Review, vol. 8, no. 1, Autumn 1986; review
• Victor Coleman, Corrections , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 8, no. 1, Autumn 1986; review
• George Johnston, Ask Again , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 7, no. 4, Summer 1986; review; (download in PDF)
• Gregory M. Cook, Love in Flight , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 7, no. 4, Summer 1986; review
• Robert Zend, Oab , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Winter 1985-86; review
• Patrick Lane, A Linen Crow, A Caftan Magpie , Poetry Canada Review, vol. 7, no. 1, Autumn 1985; review
• The New Blewointmentpress; Six Poets of the 80s , (Ford, Zonailo, Hall, Whiteman, McNamara, West), CVII, vol. 8, no. 4, February 1985; review
• Dowsing and Education , The American Dowser, vol. 24, no. 4, November 1984, Vermont; article.
• CIV/n, A Literary Magazine of the 50s , Poetry Montreal, March 1984; review
• Endre Farkas, The Druid's Potion: A Statement of Pain , Brick, no. 20, Winter 1984; review
• Two Sides of George Johnston , CVII, vol. 7, no. 3, September 1983; review and article
• Roy MacDonald, The Answer Questioned, CVII, May 1984; review.
• Dowsing , Poetry and the Censoring Mind , Montreal Journal of Poetics, Spring-Summer-Fall 1983; article
• R.M. Bucke and the Spiritual Dimension , CVII, vol. 6, no. 1 & 2, Winter 1982; article
• Keitha K. MacIntosh , Huntingdon Gleaner, November 25, 1981; review.
• Insight in Poetry and Teaching , Montreal Journal of Poetics, Spring-Summer 1981; article
• Two Modern Writers: Gustafson and Kroetsch , CVII, vol. 5, no. 1, Autumn 1980; review
• Norris and Cohen; The Limits of Self-Consciousness , Montreal Journal of poetics, Spring-Summer 1980; article
• R.M. Bucke as Critic , Montreal Journal of Poetics, Spring-Summer 1979; article
• Richard Sommer: "The Safe Old Pain of Being Inside" , Montreal Journal of Poetics, Spring-Summer 1979; article
• The Purpose of Experimental Poetry , Montreal Journal of Poetics, Winter 1978-79; article
• Nin and Poetry: A Short Statement , Montreal Poems, no. 4, Winter 1978, Montreal; article
• Extending The Limit, Ed Varney , CVII, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 1977; review
• The Insecurity Of Art: 5 Statements , Only Paper Today, vol. 3, no. 5, May-June 1976; article
• Relationship and Separation, thirty-five poems in an Imagist context, MA thesis, McGill University, 1976; (download in PDF)