poetry | The Walrus

Are Prose Poets Trolling Us?

September 17, 2019October 6, 2019 - by Jason Guriel

In a new anthology, everything is a poem. And nothing is

Unscattered

August 16, 2019August 21, 2019 - by Sadie McCarney

He tricked his shrivelled tulips back to bloom

Illustration of Kateri Lanthier

May 2019 / Poetry

Peony

August 1, 2019 - by Kateri Lanthier

A rose withers to a decorative casting of herself

Arts & Culture / Poetry

Red-Eye

May 10, 2019July 8, 2019 - by Sadiqa de Meijer

The plane makes its fluid, plummeting turn, and my window fills with land

Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa wears a green shirt and stands in front of a gold backdrop.

Arts & Culture / June 2018

Souvankham Thammavongsa Shows Us the Beauty of a Furious Poem

May 7, 2019July 6, 2019 - by Anita Lahey

The persuasive anger of the poet’s new collection, Cluster, tackles everything from war to the financial industry

Souvankham Thammavongsa

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?

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Radical Poetry

June 5, 2018August 22, 2019 - by Jonah Brunet

The twenty-three-year-old Cree poet believes in the political power of clear writing

Illustration by Karen Klassen

Poetry / Web Exclusives

Robyn Sarah’s Exquisitely Untrendy Poetry

October 31, 2017November 22, 2017 - by Anita Lahey

The Montreal poet’s timeless world of leaves, rain, snow, wind, sidewalks and shadows