Editorial
Intersections between science and art
Perhaps scientific understanding and artistic imagining are different aspects of the same impulse.
The Literature Issue: Intersections between science and art
Art
Scientifically fantastic creatures: the animated engravings of Amanda Woolrich
Montréal Serai editor Claudia Itzkowich visited Amanda Woolrich in her studio to prepare this piece.
Poetry
The Shape of Yearning
Call of the Loon Come back.
Essay
An Ecology of Death
My father’s death defeated me; I felt robbed by it. It didn’t come as a surprise because he […]
Poetry
The Problem of Joy
Mitochondrial Eve A plague of poppies: salmon, tomato, apricot.
Meditation
First Principles and Aesthetics
When we say first principles, we claim we are going down to the basics.
Poetry
Touching on Tangents
Turbulence it’s not the breath, in or out not quite breath’s only the boundary sneaks past smooth ebbs on […]
Essay
Science versus Art: A Medical Practitioner Ruminates
One reason to go to medical school can be a letter from a university congratulating you on a successful […]
Poetry
Gratia Plena: An essay on dementia and love
I I find her hunched in her chair a wizened crow wrapped in a food-smeared bib porridge drying on […]
Essay
Where Science Meets Art and Becomes One
The zeitgeist of our times is characterized by creativity and innovation, particularly in the fields of art and […]
Poetry
Cardinal Flower
Cardinal Flower Red flash— a few sprigs puncture the monotony of brown-green bog, never-ending evergreens and skeletons of cedar.
Poetry
Art’s Longing, Medicine’s Ways
ODE TO HIPPOCRATES Who’s Hippocrates, I know, in Crete or someplace else – calling out to the Sirens, the […]
Commentary
Science and Art: Two Faces of the Truth
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe.
Poetry
Snow Is Falling
Snow Is Falling Snow is falling.
Poetry
Summernote V, Chernobyl, and Totenwald
Summernote V Call her goddess of heath and yellow gorse.
Film Review
South Asian Film Festival: Montréal 2019. Portraits of Cultural Decline and Resilience in Films from Pakistan
The South Asian Film Festival of Montréal (SAFFM) was launched in 2011.
Poetry
Cheeky Mathematics
Cheeky Mathematics He and she fuse their cells with the sticky glue of their warm juices Two cells […]