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Essays/Reviews
Or read Morton's essay "This Ploughshare is Double-Edged"
from the anthology Waging Peace, edited by Susan McMaster.
Or here to read his recollections about being a young poet.
He imagines how poetry could save your life in this article.
Some notes
on poetics can be found in the 2009 edition of Ottawater.com.
A few reviews of his books may be found online, for example:
Coastlines of the Archipelago, reviewed by Stephen Brockwell
Dance, Misery, reviewed by Gil McElroy, and by Harold Rhenisch
Morton has also reviewed books by many Canadian writers, including:
You may often find his brief essays and notes at the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter blog.