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20 Years of The Walrus: Poetry

September 15, 2023September 15, 2023 - by Various Contributors

Karen Solie, Eric Ormsby, and Michael Fraser are just some of the fine poets who have appeared in our pages

Randall Adjei performing at The Walrus Gala

Poetry

Who We Are Now

July 27, 2023 - by Randell Adjei

Who are we now that we know better than we did before?

May 2023 / Poetry

Invaders

April 25, 2023April 24, 2023 - by Alex Boyd

Returning from the mall with my mother, I’d freeze, / there being no polite way to wake him

Black and white photo of Ricardo Sternberg on an orange background.

March/April 2023 / Poetry

Aubade

April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 - by Ricardo Sternberg

Was it within the song / or within himself

December 2022 / Poetry

November Run

December 8, 2022 - by Richard Sanger

and now you hang on my shoulder / as I lead the way, taking you on, pressing the pace

Poet Michael Lista against a red backdrop

November 2022 / Poetry

The Bar in Hell

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 - by Michael Lista

Just pick a stranger, and do the human dance, / Wagering your lost soul on your last romance

A man wearing a checkered blazer, glasses, and a fedora smiles and stares downward, against a bright pink background.

Poetry / September/October 2022

Kettle

September 9, 2022 - by James Pollock

Hesitant whistles. Then this wheezing laugh, / growing hysterical, like a dance-of-death

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Brink

August 5, 2022 - by Terese Mason Pierre

the moon in your chest squeezing / salt water down your untouched flesh

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Tears of Things

August 5, 2022August 16, 2022 - by Susan Musgrave

how I desired, / beyond all reason, those unreachable sweets

July/August 2022 / Poetry

Telephone Repairman

July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 - by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin

I could take this hammer and drive it / through a wet-oak memory of itself

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