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January/February 2022 / Poetry

The Climbing Vine

January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 - by Karen Solie

the structure’s joints creaked / and the muscles stood out in the nails

Greyscale photograph of Bruce Taylor against a blue background.

December 2021 / Poetry

I’ve Had a Good Life. I’ve Been Water-Skiing

December 9, 2021 - by Bruce Taylor

Was all of this enough? / I won a game, I won a game again

An image of nine book covers on a pink background with wavy lines on it. Going clockwise, the books are: Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers by Marcello Di Cintio, Fathers at Hockey by Richard Sanger, The Singing Forest by Judith McCormack, All’s Well by Mona Awad, The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat, Why I Was Late by Charlie Petch, Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson, Pure Flame by Michelle Orange, and Second Place by Rachel Cusk.

Arts & Culture / Books

Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2021

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

From legal dramas to hockey poems, some of our leading contemporary writers discuss their top reads

A photo of poet Molly Peacock against a red background

December 2021 / Poetry

Today My Task Is the Codicil

November 23, 2021 - by Molly Peacock

I’ve had my pomegranate life. / Seeds sluicing red . . . Rose affection

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

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

Black and white photograph of Virginia Konchan against a purple background.

November 2021 / Poetry

Joyride

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 - by Virginia Konchan

I came into this world bringing only paper, rope, shadow

Photo illustration of the poet Matt Robinson

November 2021 / Poetry

The Pickup Skater

October 14, 2021 - by Matt Robinson

His passes—those on-ice / em dashes—as silky or fit-to-be-tied as jaunty cravats

Black and white photo of poet Matt Rader superimposed on an orange background.

Poetry / September/October 2021

We Knew What Was Coming

September 10, 2021 - by Matt Rader

We knew what was / Coming—the outburst / Of green

Poetry / September/October 2021

Myth

August 27, 2021 - by Terese Mason Pierre

You’d rather die by myth, / come upon the villains of your / mother’s bedtime stories

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