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Author: Michael Prior

Michael Prior
Michael Prior
Michael Prior is a writer and poet. His first collection of verse, Model Disciple, was published by Véhicule Press in 2016.
Michael Prior
Arts & Culture / December 2018 / Poetry

Grandfather’s Axes

June 14, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Michael Prior

One belonged to a grandfather who wore ugly sweaters

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Illustration by Jason Logan
July/August 2017 / Poetry

In Cloud Country

June 30, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Michael Prior

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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Hoa Nguyen
Arts & Culture / Web Exclusives

The Constellations of Influences and Community

September 2, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Michael Prior

Walrus Poetry Prize judge Hoa Nguyen on what’s important when it comes to writing and assessing poems

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Contributors illustration by Kellen Hatanaka
March 2015 / Poetry

The Beginner’s Guide to Model Making

February 16, 2015November 20, 2019 - by Michael Prior

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 …

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Poetry / Web Exclusives

Ventriloquism for Dummies

October 26, 2014April 26, 2017 - by Michael Prior

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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