Poetry | The Walrus

A photo illustration of the poet Christian Bok

The Red Rain of Kerala

October 7, 2019 - by Christian Bök

Flies rage among the roses / as if in the throes of rabies

Unscattered

August 16, 2019August 21, 2019 - by Sadie McCarney

He tricked his shrivelled tulips back to bloom

Illustration of Kateri Lanthier

May 2019 / Poetry

Peony

August 1, 2019 - by Kateri Lanthier

A rose withers to a decorative casting of herself

Arts & Culture / May 2019 / Poetry

Three Poems

June 28, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Michael Fraser

A series about the lives and experiences of African Canadians who joined the Union army in the American Civil War

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

Arts & Culture / Poetry

Red-Eye

May 10, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Sadiqa de Meijer

The plane makes its fluid, plummeting turn, and my window fills with land

Poet Jana Prikryl

April 2019 / Arts & Culture / Poetry

Waves

April 22, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Jana Prikryl

That night the wind remade itself

Photo courtesy of George Murray and The Walrus

December 2017 / Poetry

Animal Is My Inner Animal

March 29, 2019 - by George Murray

Look past the wild red hair, gripped sticks, and teeth gnashing; past the twin shows of chasing skirts and anger

Photo courtesy of Lucas Crawford and The Walrus

March 2019 / Poetry

Theses on the Hydrology of Sweet Tea

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 - by Lucas Crawford

I pray only to wordplay. Am I wrong to fetishize fluidity? Strength?

Image by The Walrus

January/February 2019 / Poetry

Hair is Choking the Drain

March 18, 2019March 25, 2019 - by Ian Williams

My friend in Africa has a cleaning lady. They are both Black. He tidies up a little before she arrives