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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

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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

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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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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

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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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