Canadian poetry | The Walrus - Part 5

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Games

Black and white portrait of Kayla Czaga against a green background.

December 2021 / Poetry

Coho

November 18, 2021 - by Kayla Czaga

My father knelt down at the river’s edge / to unhook it. He cupped it in his palms

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Portrait of Lillian Allen. She is smiling with a metal, silver chain around her neck and dangly earrings. She is wearing a pastel blue print shirt, and her hair is cut short.

Arts & Culture / November 2021

The Influence of Dub Poet Lillian Allen Runs Deep

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 - by Kaie Kellough

How a poet once relegated to the fringes helped fashion a new narrative of who a Canadian artist could be

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Different windows showing different people doing various activities

November 2023 / Poetry / September 2014

A Late Writer’s Desk

September 4, 2014December 15, 2023 - by Elise Partridge

Scrapyard rescue, no single / edge flush—three fraying planks

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Illustration by Thomas Libetti

March 2009 / Poetry

Some Other Just Ones

March 12, 2009March 3, 2023 - by Steven Heighton

She who, having loved a book or record, instantly passes it on

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March 2008 / Poetry

Tractor

March 12, 2008September 11, 2023 - by Karen Solie

It silences the arguments of every living thing / and our minds in that time are not entirely elsewhere

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