Background
He grew up in Calgary and has worked as a teacher and editors
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The Local Cluster
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Oceans Apart (New Canadian Novelists Series)
(Book by Morton, Colin)
Book by Morton, Colin
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The Cabbage of Paradise: The Merzbook and Other Poems
( Colin Morton’s The Cabbage of Paradise consists of a re...)
Colin Morton’s The Cabbage of Paradise consists of a recasting of material from his notable, long out-of-print 1987 collection The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems, which dramatizes the great German artist’s life and aesthetics, now interspersed with the author’s own concrete poems and Dadaist-influenced texts and collages. A lively dialogue is thus generated with the art and poetics of a watershed era whose impact continues to be felt. Schwitters proclaimed that his art was apolitical, but eventually had to flee from the Nazis, who destroyed his “decadent” work. Morton’s inventive treatment vividly illuminates the situation of art and the artist in both the last century and our own.
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- How to be Born Again (Book by Morton, Colin)
Colin Morton
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His poetry and fiction have appeared in Descant, The Fiddlehead, Arc, Grain, The Malahat Review, Ascent, and The North American Review among many other publications. More recently, his poetry has explored aspects of world history. His book of poetry The Merzbook was inspired by the life and work of Kurt Schwitters, and was the basis for a dramatic production, The Cabbage of Paradise.
The sound-poem, Primiti Too Taa, based on Schwitters" Ursonate (Sonata in primitive sounds), was made into an animated short film by Editor Ackerman, featuring Morton"s voice and a stop-motion animation of moving letters, made using a typewriter.
His book The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bulletin and the Major is a poetic documentary about the exile in Canada of Lakota chief Sitting Bulletin, and his relationship with Major James Walsh of the NWMP. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Achievements
Works
book
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The Cabbage of Paradise: The Merzbook and Other Poems
( Colin Morton’s The Cabbage of Paradise consists of a re...)
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How to be Born Again
(Book by Morton, Colin)
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Oceans Apart (New Canadian Novelists Series)
(Book by Morton, Colin)
- The Local Cluster
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The Cabbage of Paradise: The Merzbook and Other Poems
Membership
He was a member of the performance group First Draft which recorded, published, and performed some 40 times across Canada in the 1980s.
