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ISBN 978-1-77171-356-6 A Poet's Journey (literary memoir) 23.95
published 2019 126 pages

Stephen Morrissey’s A Poet’s Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet includes essays and notes on becoming a poet and the art of poetry. Writing from a poet’s perspective Morrissey discusses the influence of older poets who act as mentors; the poet friends of one’s youth; poets whose books influence one’s own work; and the varied experiences of life that are important to the development of the poet’s writing.

ISBN 978-1-77171-055-8 A Private Mythology (poetry) 23.95
published 2014 89 pages

Stephen Morrissey is a poet of the various ways in which family experience manifests itself, whether in love, in conflict, or in the generations of a family's history. Ancestors, the human psyche, salvation through self-revelation, life’s spiritual dimension: these are all themes and concerns in his poetry.