Grandfather’s Axes
One belonged to a grandfather who wore ugly sweaters
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Prior
Michael Prior is a writer and poet. His first collection of verse, Model Disciple, was published by Véhicule Press in 2016.
In Cloud Country
Within our borders, / your hair frays cirrus into sky, while that bride, / so serious in every photo, never had to be you.
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The Constellations of Influences and Community
Walrus Poetry Prize judge Hoa Nguyen on what’s important when it comes to writing and assessing poems
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The Beginner’s Guide to Model Making
My father built ships in bottles, histories in aquariums, filled the second-storey guest room with Waterloo reconceived in Plasticine. Each miniature world was malleable, rippled by his fingers’ ridges, dimpled …
Read MoreVentriloquism for Dummies
Winner of the 2014 Walrus Poetry Prize Pine plosives, alveolar carpentry: my life, lived like an elaborate glove. Tilt my head, a pale seashell scribed by lathe, and listen to …
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