In this present collection, Girouard Avenue, Morrissey’s eighth book of poetry, the poet travels outward, inward, back to the past, and forward to where he currently lives. Girouard Avenue consists of four long poems, each in several parts, plus a prologue and epilogue poem. These long poems are each one a poetic tour de force, brilliantly eloquent in their evocation of the Montreal of Morrissey’s childhood; the city of his Irish ancestors; and the present locale for the poet’s sensibility. This highly evolved a poetry book only comes along every once in a while, in the canon of Canadian poetry.