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Geoffrey D. Morrison is the author of the poetry chapbook Blood-Brain Barrier (Frog Hollow Press, 2019) and co-author, with Matthew Tomkinson, of the experimental short fiction collection Archaic Torso of Gumby (Gordon Hill Press, 2020). He was a finalist in both the poetry and fiction categories of the 2020 Malahat Review Open Season Awards and a nominee for the 2020 Journey Prize. He lives on unceded Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh territory (Vancouver).
"It is rare to come across a debut novel that feels so
unapologetically intellectual and, at the same time, so alive to
what is beautiful and terrible in human life. Falling
Hour is more than just the record of a character’s thoughts
over the course of a day; it is a kind of literary ghost bicycle
chained to the spot where a cyclist was killed, an anthem of the
defeated, a howl of rage at a violent machine. It is also, I’m
afraid to say, a masterpiece." – André Forget, Literary
Review of Canada
"Falling Hour is an existential feast, a satisfying banquet of
innovative fiction, ripe with free-flowing associations that
astound, all with the cohesion of a lucid dream." – Danial Neil,
The British Columbia Review"Falling Hour is a densely woven
text of rhythmic sentences and shifting metaphors, of righteous
rants about colonialism, capitalism, and Methodist-minded
Canadians, of lyrical meditations on the natural world, of facts
that beget more facts. Reading it broke my brain, and I mean this
as the highest compliment." – Marisa Grizenko
"The perks and pleasures are innumerable in this, the memories of
the disgruntled protagonist on a single, lonely day." – Brett
Josef Grubisic, Vancouver Sun"In Falling Hour, Geoffrey
D. Morrison’s impressive first novel, a ruminative young man named
Hugh Dalgarno takes an old picture frame to a public park where he
has an appointment to sell it to a stranger." – Kevin
Canfield, Necessary Fiction"Morrison offers a tender portrayal
of loneliness amidst the ravages of late capitalism, where
everything, including the most basic forms of human relation, have
been subsumed under market logic." – Aaron
Obedkoff, Canadian Notes & Queries"There is impressive control
in the deployment of these mind spirals, with Morrison integrating
link after link into a narrative that grows more complex but keeps
all its many balls in the air, the kind of juggler who satisfies
and surprises with what he is able to toss into the mix."
– Emily McBride, The Rumpus
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