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Albert Frank (A.F.) Moritz was born on 15 April 1947 in Niles, Ohio. He earned a B.A. in journalism, an M.A., and a Ph.D in English from Marquette University, and came to Canada in 1974. Moritz teaches at Victoria College, University of Toronto, and lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Books by A.F. Moritz

	1975 Here (poetry)
	1979 Signs and Certainties (poetry)
	1981 Black Orchid (poetry)
	1982 Between the Root and the Flower (poetry)
	1982 Canada Illustrated: The Art of Nineteenth-century Engraving (non-fiction)
	1982 The Pocket Canada: A Guidebook (non-fiction)
	1983 The Visitation (poetry)
	1983 America the Picturesque in Nineteenth Century Engraving (non-fiction)
	1985 Leacock: A Biography (non-fiction, with Theresa Moritz)
	1986 The Tradition (poetry)
	1987 The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Canada (non-fiction, with Theresa Moritz)
	1992 Song of Fear (poetry)
	1993 The Ruined Cottage (poetry)
	1994 Phantoms in the Ark (poetry, with Ludwig Zeller)
	1994 Mahoning (poetry)
	1998 A Houseboat on the Styx (poetry)
	1999 Rest on the Flight into Egypt (poetry)
	2000 Conflicting Desire (poetry)
	2000 The End of the Age (poetry)
	2001 The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman (non-fiction, with Theresa Moritz)
	2002 Early Poems (poetry)
	2002 Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life (non-fiction, with Theresa Moritz)
	2004 Night Street Repairs (poetry)
	2006 Crossroads Near Somewhere (chapbook)
	2008 The Sentinel (poetry)
	2008 Sound of Hungry Animals (chapbook)
	2012 The New Measures
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Awards

• Governor General's Literary Awards: Poetry
  • 2000 – Rest on the Flight into Egypt – Shortlisted
  • 2008 – The Sentinel – Shortlisted
  • 2012 – The New Measures – Shortlisted

• Griffin Poetry Prize
  • 2009 – The Sentinel – Winner

• ReLit Awards: Poetry
  • 2005 – Night Street Repairs – Winner

Poems Online

• Addiction
• Background, The: Mastectomy
• Better Days
• Business
• Busman's Honeymoon (audio)
• Clarity
• Conversation with a Widow
• Dandelion
• Erotic Civilization, The
• Essay on the Guilty
• Freedom
• Guru, The
• Home Again Home Again
• In Praise of Plenty of Room
• Little Walls Before China, The
• Lost Content
• Native Woman
• Odds and Ends
• On Distinction
• One With The Sun
• Orpheus
• Returning from Wallace Stevens
• Reunion of War Amputee and Field Surgeon
• Seer, The
• Simile
• Thou Poem (video)
• Two Epigrams
• Uninvited Reader
• What Glandular City
• What Is Impossible
• What Way
• You That I Loved
• Your Idea of Embracing Horror

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Added 04 May 2010.
Updated 14 August 2013.