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Souvankham Thammavongsa in front of purple backdrop

January/February 2019 / Poetry

Theory of Writing

December 10, 2018March 12, 2019 - by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Can the secret to writing well be as simple as a mathematical equation?

Photograph courtesy of the Griffin Poetry Prize

Arts & Culture

Walrus Poetry Prize Judge Jordan Abel Shares What He’s Looking for This Year

September 7, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Adèle Barclay

“I’d like to begin to read a poem and then not be able to stop”

July/August 2017 / Poetry

In Cloud Country

June 30, 2017May 21, 2020 - by Michael Prior

Within our borders, / your hair frays cirrus into sky, while that bride, / so serious in every photo, never had to be you.

Poetry

Sloth

October 26, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Dan MacIsaac

Finalist for the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize Icon of verdigris and pale lichen, odalisque pelted with algae, ark of beetles and moon moths, paralytic rooster mute as a burl. Slow …

Poetry

Westward U-Haul Gothic

October 26, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Claire Kelly

Finalist for the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize b/c we’ve no cd player though we packed cds. b/c I’m being driven through Manitoba in a benadryl haze. b/c Manitoba goes on …

Poetry

Vortex Fluid Device

October 26, 2015July 20, 2020 - by Kayla Czaga

Finalist for the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize In California, chemists are unboiling eggs to cure children and vaccinate cancer. I am unwriting poems, letter by letter to cure sentimentality because …

Poetry

What Was Once Russia

October 26, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Lynn Crosbie

Finalist for the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize “The CCP or whatever,” my father says, anxiously. “I’ve been here for fifteen years.” I remind him that Francis is almost fifteen—his limp …

Poetry

Onakawana

October 26, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Debra Bennett

Finalist for the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize After Joseph Boyden “The Wonder and Danger of the Mighty Moose River” Islands so big they look like mainland, sturgeon large as man …

Poetry

Mercury

October 26, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Sara Peters

Winner of the 2015 Walrus Poetry Prize One summer in my youth the young girl with the solar system tattooed on her face ruled the Town, and I spent all …

November 2015 / Poetry

Nymph

October 15, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Cassidy McFadzean

Forest’s pine needles made a false floor that broke away below me, earth loosening around the tree’s roots and the rotting log’s hollow chambers. I fell ass-first in the dappled …