Michael J T Morrissey

Michael J T Morrissey

Michael James Terence Morrissey (Michael Morrissey) is a New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, editor, feature article writer, book reviewer and columnist. He is the author of ten volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, a memoir and two short novels and he has edited five other books.

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Life and achievements

Born in 1942, Michael Morrissey was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and studied law and English literature at the University of Auckland. In 1967, he was the editor of Craccum, the University of Auckland student newspaper. In the 1970s, he began publishing short stories in Islands and Mate and later contributed stories and poems to literary journals such as Landfall, Morepork, Climate, Poetry New Zealand, Listener, Pilgrims, Rambling Jack, Printout, Brief, Magazine, Bravado, Comment, Echoes, Tango, Cornucopia, Takahe (New Zealand); Ocarina, Literary Half Yearly, (India); New Poetry, Poetry Australia, Mattoid, Inprint, (Australia); Gargoyle, Fiction International, Chelsea (USA).

In 1979, he was the first Writer-in-Residence at the University of Canterbury and in 1985 the first New Zealand participant in the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa from which he earned an Honorary Fellowship in Writing. In 1986, he was the New Zealand delegate at the 48th World Congress of International PEN.

A Fulbright Cultural Travel Award in 1981 enabled him to visit several leading American universities where he studied the teaching of creative writing. On his return to New Zealand, he founded the Waiheke Summer Writing School which ran from 1983 to 1991. He has taught creative writing through several Community Education Centres, and Continuing Education, University of Auckland, and is currently a tutor at the New Zealand Institute of Business Studies, Auckland.

His anthology The New Fiction (1985) was the first anthology of New Zealand postmodern fiction. His 80 plus published short stories vary from neo-social realism to surreal and postmodern styles and also deploy the introduction of famous personalities into the New Zealand landscape such as Jack Kerouac, Charles Fort, Andy Warhol and Franz Kafka.

Morrissey's short stories have been widely anthologised, including in All the Dangerous Animals Are in Zoos (1981), New Zealand Writing Since 1945 (1983), I Have Seen the Future (1986), Metro Fiction (1987), Antipodes New Writing (1987), Short Story International (1987), Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (1989), The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories (1992), The Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories (1994), Rutherford's Dreams (1995), Essential New Zealand Short Stories (2002 and 2009).

A short film by Costa Botes of one of Morrissey's stories, Stalin's Sickle, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, in France, in 1988.

Morrissey's memoir, Taming the Tiger[1] (2011) documents his experiences with manic depression, graphically describing two serious bipolar episodes and his forced hospitalisation. These episodes and Morrissey's mania were the subject of a feature-length documentary, Daytime Tiger, directed by Costa Botes, which premiered at the New Zealand international film festival in 2011.

Michael Morrissey has contributed a monthly book review column to Investigate magazine since 2000 and also has reviewed books for the Listener, Landfall, Islands, the Sunday Star-Times, the New Zealand Herald, The Press, Printout, and Quote Unquote.

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Make Love in All the Rooms (1978), Caveman Press, Dunedin. ISBN 0 908562 75 6
  • Closer to the Bone (1981), Sword Press, Christchurch. ISBN 0 9597596 0 3
  • She's Not the Child Of Sylvia Plath (1981), Sword Press, Christchurch. ISBN 0 9597596 1 1
  • Dreams, (1981), Sword Press, Christchurch. ISBN 0 9597596 3 8
  • Taking In the View (1986), Auckland University Press. ISBN 1 86940 004 6
  • New Zealand - What Went Wrong? (1988), Van Guard Xpress, ISBN 0 9088836 02 3
  • Dr Strangelove's Prescription (1988), Van Guard Xpress, Auckland. ISBN 0 908836 03 1
  • A Case of Briefs (1989), Van Guard Xpress, Auckland. ISBN 0 908836 01 5
  • The American Hero Loses His Tie (1989), Van Guard Xpress, Auckland. ISBN 0 908836 04 X
  • From the Swimming Pool Question (2006), Zenith Publishing, ISBN 1 877365 36 X

Short fiction

  • The Fat Lady & The Astronomer (1981) Sword Press, Christchurch. ISBN 0 9597596 2 X
  • Octavio's Last Invention (1991), Brick Row Publishing, Auckland. ISBN 0 908595 52 2

Short novels

  • Paradise to Come (1997), Flamingo, Auckland. ISBN 1 86950 252 3 - containing: Terra Incognita 1526 and Captain Nemo's Child
  • Heart of the Volcano (2000), BookCaster Press, Auckland, ISBN 0 473 06844 3

Full Length Novel

Tropic of Skorpeo, a sci-fi fantasy in satiric-thriller mode, has been accepted by Steam Press and will be published in September/October 2012.

Memoir

Edited

  • The New Fiction (1985), Lindon Publishing, Auckland. ISBN 0 86470 016 4
  • The Globe Tapes (1985) (with Mike Johnson and Rosemary Menzies), Hard Echo Press, Auckland. ISBN 0 908715 15 3
  • New Zealand's Top 10 (1993), Moa Beckett, ISBN 1 86958 013 3
  • The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000), Flamingo, Auckland. ISBN 1 86950 335 X
  • The Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories - Extended Edition, (2004), Flamingo, Auckland. ISBN 1 86950 496 8

Stage plays

  • Come Here Beethoven (1979). Performed at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch and the University of Otago, Dunedin.
  • Exorcisms (1979). Performed at Theatre Corporate, Auckland.

Representation in anthologies

  • All The Dangerous Animals Are in Zoos (1981)
  • New Zealand Writing Since 1945 (1983)
  • New Zealand Short Stories (4th Series) (1984)
  • Listener Short Stories 3 (1984)
  • The New Fiction (1985)
  • I Have Seen the Future (1986)
  • Metro Fiction (1987)
  • Antipodes New Writing (1987)
  • Short Story International (1987)
  • Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (1989)
  • Tabasco Sauce and Ice Cream (1990)
  • The Oxford Book of New Zealand Short Stories (1992)
  • Faber Book of Contemporary South Pacific Stories (1994)
  • Rutherford's Dreams (1995)
  • Beethoven's Ears (1995)
  • 100 NZ Short Stories (1997)
  • Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories (2000)
  • Author's Choice (2001)
  • Essential New Zealand Short Stories (2002)
  • Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories Extended edition (2004)
  • Sunday 22 (2006)
  • Essential New Zealand Short Stories Second Edition (2009)
  • 46 by 44 (2009)

Awards

  • MacMillan Brown Prize (1977)
  • Writer's Bursary (1977)
  • Writer-in-Residence - University of Canterbury (1979)
  • Tom-Gallon Trust Award (1979)
  • Fulbright Cultural Travel Award (1981)
  • PEN Best First Book of Prose Award (1982)
  • Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition (1984)
  • Lilian Ida Smith Poetry Award (1986)

Morrissey was also awarded major project grants by Creative New Zealand in 1993 and 1998.

Further reading

An extended interview with Michael Morrissey can be found in Landfall 146.[2] There is an account of Morrissey's career in the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature.[3] Poetry New Zealand 37 includes a critical study by John Horrocks of his work,[4] while Morrissey’s fiction is the subject of an extended essay by Lawrence Jones in his book Barbed Wire & Mirrors Essays on New Zealand Prose.[5] Morrissey was interviewed by Kim Hill on Radio New Zealand about his memoir Taming the Tiger on 28 May 2011.

Also consult:

  • The New Zealand Book Council [1]
  • The University of Auckland's New Zealand Literature File [2]
  • The University of Waikato's New Zealand Short Stories Website [3]
  • Simpson, Peter, (1983) Recent Fiction and the Sargeson Tradition Journal of New Zealand Literature, No 1
  • The Martyrdom of Michael Morrissey, Metro May 1990

Among reviews of Morrissey’s works are:

  • Make Love in All the Rooms Peter Simpson, Islands 24, 1978,
  • Exorcisms Michael Neill, Islands 26, 1979
  • She's Not the Child of Sylvia Plath and Closer to the Bone Patrick Morrow, Landfall 139, 1981
  • The Fat Lady & the Astronomer Suzanne Olsson, Landfall 144, 1982 and Peter Goldsworthy, the CRNLE Reviews Journal
  • Paradise to Come Iain Sharp, New Zealand Books 30, 1997 and Charles Ferrall, Landfall 195, 1998
  • From the Swimming Pool Question by Raewyn Alexander, Poetry New Zealand 34, 2007

References

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1870365
  2. ^ Olson, Suzanne (1983) Michael Morrissey interviewed, Landfall 146, Caxton, Christchurch
  3. ^ Robinson, Roger and Wattie, Nelson (1998) Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford
  4. ^ Horrocks, John (2008) Truth telling: Michael Morrissey's poetry, Poetry NZ 37, Puriri Press and Brick Row, Auckland
  5. ^ Jones, Lawrence (1987) Michael Morrissey and Postmodernism: A Day at the Fiction Picnic in Barbed Wire & Mirrors Essays on New Zealand Prose University of Otago Press, ISBN 0 908569 39 4

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