The Terrible Beauty of the Reserve
Everyone’s uncle thinks that they are the world’s most handsome NDN, and no one says otherwise.
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Robyn Sarah’s Exquisitely Untrendy Poetry
The Montreal poet’s timeless world of leaves, rain, snow, wind, sidewalks and shadows
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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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And What Of
And what of the grammar we were griven those years, Or the one we invernted, Elaborate, full of beasts of the stupendous cortex, crawpling Or were they sparrows? Were they …
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I walk most days before dinner now that the air is finally calm and clear, and each time the horizon admits more of the visible world. The windowsills are lined …
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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 …
Read More 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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