BOOKS AND TAPES BY COLIN MORTON

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            Signed first editions. Poetry. 
            Concrete and performance poetry on cassette.
            Film animation, performance scores, comic book.
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_HOW TO BE BORN AGAIN_ (Quarry Press, 1992)

If poets are born, not made, then Colin Morton is born again with each new
poem ... Whether lyrical, satirical, meditative, or surreal, his poems
encourage us to remake ourselves each day.


  ``Long, lung-deep stanzas, short, poky ones, even prose poem
paragraphs, Morton's attack changes with every new piece, his
sweeping sense of enthusiasm the only constant.  He writes as if
poetry actually had an audience, words flung out across crowded
rooms.''
                        Barry Dempster in Poetry Canada Review

``There is an odd but stimulating combination in his world of joy
springing out of mor[t]ality, or of the recognition of change and
death strengthening the heroic heart, as in that splendid poem of
marriage at mid-glory, Not Time's Fool.  The tenderness of
Morton's poems is a rough, direct male one, and often the brusque
in speech and the masculine in imagery are combined in a verse of
extraordinary literary power.''
                        - George Woodcock in Ottawa Citizen

``By describing simply a domestic moment and the emotion it
creates, Morton discovers a strong, elegant, and clear poetry. 
His work also suggests that the prose poem is a futurist form.''
                        George Elliott Clarke in Journal of Canadian Poetry


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_THE MERZBOOK: KURT SCHWITTERS POEMS_ (Quarry Press, 1987)

Prize-winner in the 1984 CBC Literary Competition  - an innovative
narrative poem based on the life and art of the renowned German dadaist
Kurt Schwitters.

- Morton's poems in The Merzbook are ``powerful illustrations of
the range of intellect that occasionally still operates in
poetry.''                Fred Wah in Books in Canada

- ``Morton has found his forte....  Merzbook is a witty, concise,
idiosyncratic masterpiece.''
                        Chris Faiers in Canadian Book Review Annual

- ``Colin Morton...has achieved the best balance between the
varying demands of the documentary form: between objective fact
and subjective interpretation, between documentation and
lyricism, between his persona and himself....  The Merzbook
strikes me as a quite major addition to the genre.''
                        Stephen Scobie in Malahat Review

- ``Morton's poems... continually destabilize a reader and put her
into a position of joyful discovery.''  
                        Dennis Cooley in Journal of Canadian Poetry

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_THIS WON'T LAST FOREVER_ (Longspoon Press, 1985)    

Winner of the first Archibald Lampman Poetry Award 

``Morton's poems, whether erotic discoveries, satiric variations
on a theme or cries of outrage, are accessible and
interesting....  His experimental, playful approach to poetry is
frank and refreshing.''
                        Shaun Hunter in Journal of Canadian Poetry

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THE FIRST ANIMATED SHORT MADE FOR IMAX

PRIMITI TOO TAA - sound poetry and typewriter animation film
(Teeswater Animation, 1986, 1987)

Winner of several international film festival awards including 
Best Soundtrack, ASIFA East Film Festival, New York (1988)
Bronze Apple, National Educational Film and Video Festival (1988)

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AND WORK BY THE INTERMEDIA PERFORMANCE GROUP FIRST DRAFT

Wordmusic (audio-cassette, First Draft, 1986)

The Scream: First Draft group show (ed., Ouroboros, 1984)

North/South, by C. Morton, S. McMaster and A. McClure
(Underwhich, 1987)

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AND MORE 

In Transit - poetry (Thistledown, 1981)

Printed Matter - concrete poetry (Sidereal, 1982)

Two Decades: from A Century of Inventions (Ouroboros, 1987)

Musical Ride - comic book, (Clarion, 1990)

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                        Colin Morton
                        40 Grove Ave.
                        Ottawa, Ontario K1S 3A6
                        Canada

                        (613)730-9079
                                                                
                        Internet: aa905@freenet.carleton.ca