Drafts and completed poems written between 1970 to 1978; manuscripts show Morrissey’s interest in concrete and sound poetry and emphasis on experimental writing.

Contains 23 mostly spiral-bound notebooks dated 1979 - 1986. Also, five notebooks with drafts of poems, notes, and crayon drawings and collages from a Canada Council "B" Grant sponsored visit to Mexico from October to December 1984. Includes first drafts of poems published in Family Album (Vancouver, Caitlin Press, 1989) and drafts of book reviews by Stephen Morrissey.
A copy of Divisions is included.

Contains nine “packages” of manuscripts; each “package” is approximately two inches thick. Included are unpublished manuscripts, rough drafts of poems dating from 1984 to 1988, and the manuscript for Family Album (Vancouver, Caitlin Press, 1989).
An unpublished manuscript entitled Meetings With RR, a biography of R.R. Skinner, an English healer and spiritual teacher and friend of Morrissey’s for twenty-five year, is included. Also, included are numerous drafts of book reviews published in Poetry Canada Review, Canadian Literature, The Antigonish Review, and other periodicals.

File consists of a copy of what is, May 1973, issue # two. Printed on one sheet of legal size paper is a concrete poem by Stephen Morrissey.

File consists of a copy of what is, July 1973, issue # four. : One legal size paper with concrete poems by Stephen Morrissey to be cut and stapled into a Stephen Morrisseyall booklet. Envelope of assembled booklets included in file.

File consists of a copy of what is, August 1973, issue # five. : One legal size sheet of paper with a concrete poem "Cage for an August nite" by Stephen Morrissey. This poem refers to the composer John Cage.

File consists of a copy of what is, October 1974, issue # ten. : Three legal size sheets of paper with a visual poem by Edwin Varney, a sound poem by Artie Gold, and a concrete poem by Stephen Morrissey; and one letter size page with a found poem taken f

File consists of a copy of what is, January 1975, issue # eleven. : Two legal size sheets of paper with a sound poem by Claudia Lapp on one, a poster for a reading with a concrete poem on it by Stephen Morrissey on the other, plus three letter size pages

File consists of a copy of what is, April 1975, issue # twelve. : This issue includes a legal size page advertisement for chapbooks from Vehicule Art as well as six letter size pages of concrete poems by Pat Walsh, Artie Gold, Allan Bealy, Don Druick and

File consists of Montreal Journal of Poetics, Winter 1978-79, issue # one. : A sixteen page issue with essays by John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey, Ken Norris, Andre Farkas, and Tom Konyves. Several back copies of the magazine.