AGQ-F0056

Fonds Thomas Convey. – [1981]-1988. – 4 cm of textual records. – 7 photographs : b&w.

 

 

Biographical sketch:

 

Thomas P. Convey is a poet and cook born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on April 24, 1956. He is said to have lived in Winnipeg until 1980. He began his academic career at the University of Manitoba in 1974 and graduated with honours in English in 1979. He began writing poems, journalistic pieces, reviews and essays for his literature courses in the early 1970s. His first publications were printed in The Manitoban, the University of Manitoba’s student newspaper. He left Winnipeg in 1980 for Montreal.

 

Exhausted by critical writing, he decided in 1981 to write a master’s thesis in creative writing at Concordia. He also wrote a play entitled Interface, which was never published. In 1982, he destroyed all the poetry he had written previously.

 

Thomas P. Convey worked and travelled during and between his studies. In 1982 he worked as a cook in Montreal, submitting his MA thesis in November 1983. He then lived in Paris (ca. 1984), working in a restaurant and writing poetry. He returned to live in Montreal for a short time with Ken Morrison, with whom he had a romantic relationship, and then moved to Toronto. He died of AIDS in 1988, at the age of 32, and was buried in Winnipeg.

 

 

Scope and content:

 

The fonds covers Thomas P. Convey’s activities during the 1980s, including his academic and professional career. The documents include Thomas P. Convey’s poems written after 1982, including his master’s thesis entitled Tuning Inner Radio.

 

The fonds contains a curriculum vitae, biographical notes, a collection of annotated poems, a collection of typescripts, a master’s thesis, handwritten notes and photographic works by an unknown author.

 

 

The fonds contains the following files:

 

  • AGQ-F0056/D1. Thomas P. Convey. Curriculum Vitae (Literati). Biographical Notes [tapuscrits annotés]
  • AGQ-F0056/D2. Thomas P. Convey. Poèmes [tapuscrits annotés] et notes manuscrites
  • AGQ-F0056/D3. Thomas P. Convey. Poèmes [tapuscrit]
  • AGQ-F0056/D4. Thomas P. Convey. General Outline for Thesis Proposal. [tapuscrits annotés et notes manuscrites]
  • AGQ-F0056/D5. Thomas P. Convey. Tuning Inner Radio [mémoire de maîtrise]
  • AGQ-F0056/D6. Thomas P. Convey et Ken Morrison. Notes manuscrites. Transfert de fonds
  • AGQ-F0056/D7. [Thomas P. Convey ?] Œuvres photographiques

 

 

Notes:

 

Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.

 

Immediate source of acquisition: The fonds was transferred to the AGQ in 1994 by Ken Morrison (acquisition 1994-017).

 

Language: The files are in English.

 

Finding aids: Digital inventory of the fonds in Excel format.

 

 

 

 

 

            Dernière modification : 2025-04-23