Garry Thomas Morse

Garry Thomas Morse has had two books of poetry published by LINEbooks – Transversals for Orpheus (2006) and Streams (2007) – and three collections of fiction published by Talonbooks – Death in Vancouver (2009), Minor Episodes / Major Ruckus (2012), and Rogue Cells / Carbon Harbour, the latter two of which make up two of three books in The Chaos! Quincunx series. Talon has also published two books of Morse’s poetry, After Jack (2010) and Discovery Passages (2011), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and was also voted One of the Top Ten Poetry Collections of 2011 by The Globe and Mail and One of the Best Ten Aboriginal Books from the past decade by CBC’s 8th Fire.

Grounded in the work of Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Desnos, Ezra Pound, Jack Spicer, Rainer Maria Rilke and his Native oral traditions, Morse’s work continues to appear in a variety of publications and is studied at various Canadian universities, including UBC. He is the recipient of the 2008 City of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Emerging Artist and has twice been selected as runner-up for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

Morse currently lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.