Box 12 contains the files for two magazines that Stephen Morrissey edited and published, what is and The Montreal Journal of Poetics, between 1973-1985. There is one file of preliminary notes for what is, followed by fifteen files of back issues of what is arranged chronologically (1973-1976). There is a complete run of the magazine. Ten files are included for The Montreal Journal of Poetics (later called MJP), which constitutes a complete run of this magazine (1978 - 1985). These files contain original photo-ready copies of the magazine, also included are duplicate back issues of the magazine. Both what is and The Montreal Journal of Poetics were mailed without cost to those people receiving the magazine. Several issues of what is consisted of only one legal size page. The Montreal Journal of Poetics was photocopied on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.

Contains original copies of poems including working copies of the manuscript for Divisions (Toronto, Coach House Press, 1983). A limited edition chapbook of Divisions (1978) published by Sunken Forum Press is also included.

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

Includes rough drafts of poems, including the manuscript for The Trees of Unknowing (Montreal, Vehicule Press, 1978). Photocopies of reviews of The Trees of Unknowing; invitations to the book launch at Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal; and photocopies of letters from Robert Creeley, Northrop Frye, F.R. Scott, John Newlove, and other writers regarding The Trees of Unknowing are also included. Also included are other original manuscripts by the author. A copy of The Trees of Unknowing is included.

Includes Morrissey’s earliest poems; juvenilia; the manuscript for Morrissey’s first publication, a chapbook entitled Poems of a Period (Montreal, 1971); other early unpublished manuscripts. A copy of Poems of a Period is enclosed.

Box contains folder originally numbered No. 11[2]18 with the title "Secretary of War." Box contains items relating to...