I Open the Dryer and a Robin Sails Out
Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award You are driving a bus across Alberta, deciding between seasons, plucking aphids and roses. Over mountains I feel the peak …
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Colloquium: J.T. Henry and Lady Simcoe on Early Ontario Petrocolonialism
Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Mrs. Hamilton drank tea with me. Mrs. McGill, wife of the commissary, Capt. John McGill, and Miss Crookshank, her sister, are pleasant women …
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The New Colonialism
Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix released a mating pair, an Adam and Eve, from the balcony of his Carnaby Street apartment in the ’60s. Others claim they flew the …
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Edward James Coles (1872-1951) His father died in 1884 in one of the family’s Somerset farmbuildings (a few years ago I was allowed into the main house for seven minutes …
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Finalist for the 2016 Walrus Poery Prize Wenesh aw? Who is that? I know her not, the girl she is today, hard lines drawn by a world that forced her …
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Finalist for the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize St. Albert, Alberta The black patina of wood tar stinks and sticks to the soles of our shoes as Matthew and I follow …
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Experiment
If you can’t be conduit to the novel, then at least recycle experiments proven to please the judging panel’s inner child as it wanders, agog, the gallery of triptych bristol …
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Glinda the Good Is Gone
A crosswind, the Norway’s leaves flash like sunfish in a man-made pond. Still waiting for someone to ask whether I believe in God. Maple keys footnote the ground. As a …
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