About - Michael Morais

Michael Morais, author

For Michael Morais (1945-1991), writing was like “growing your toenails after you die.” Poems, short stories and plays poured out of him, along with sketches, drawings, paintings and cartoons. What you get here is the uncut version: his own hand-typed copies, replete with typos, handwritten corrections and notes to himself for live poetry performances and music he chose to splice into radio readings. You’ll find concrete poems, “How to” poems, bathroom graffiti turned epic poetic riff, a short story, a play about a woman who brings her husband back from the dead (heedless of the state of decrepitude he’s in), and artwork that he created staring death in the face. A kaleidoscopic glimpse into a Renaissance man of colour who liked to show his underbelly.