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Anita Lahey

Anita Lahey’s most recent book is The Last Goldfish: A True Tale of Friendship.
A photograph of the poet, Bronwen Wallace, in black and white. She is wearing jeans, a white shirt, and a scarf tied around her neck. Her hands are in her pockets and she is smiling at the camera.
Arts & Culture / May 2020

The Poet Whose Work Helped Set the Stage for #MeToo

April 24, 2020June 10, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

Twenty-seven years after her death, Bronwen Wallace’s feminist poetry feels newly relevant

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Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa wears a green shirt and stands in front of a gold backdrop.
Arts & Culture / June 2019

Souvankham Thammavongsa Shows Us the Beauty of a Furious Poem

May 7, 2019January 20, 2021 - by Anita Lahey

The persuasive anger of the poet’s new collection, Cluster, tackles everything from war to the financial industry

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Arts & Culture

The Otherworldly Luminescence of Mary Pratt’s Art

August 17, 2018November 12, 2019 - by Anita Lahey

Dead at 83, the Canadian painter was a visionary in our midst

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Poetry

Robyn Sarah’s Exquisitely Untrendy Poetry

October 31, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

The Montreal poet’s timeless world of leaves, rain, snow, wind, sidewalks and shadows

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Illustration by Aimée van Drimmelen
Environment / October 2017

How Farmers Are Saving the Trumpeter Swan

September 18, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

The world’s largest waterfowl has rebounded from near extinction—thanks, in part, to the people who hate them

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Arts & Culture

The Side Effects of Reading Poetry

November 28, 2016October 8, 2020 - by Anita Lahey

Consuming poems can come with unforeseen consequences

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Health / January/February 2009

Do You Know What You’re Eating?

January 12, 2009October 14, 2019 - by Anita Lahey

Canadians want labels on GM foods. But would we understand them?

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