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Poetry

In Shadows, The Sound of Sixty Chainsaws & The Climb

Allie Duff

I have to get up close and personal with the feijoa tree...


Qingshuiyan Temple, 2021 © Zheng Mingqing, courtesy of the photographer

The Priests Have Been Arrested

Catherine Herrmann

We can’t understand each other’s words—I am a stranger she wants to welcome into her wavering world...


Photo Ali Hamad, APA images, Oct. 7, 2023 via Wiki Palestine

fragmented

shailee

a path of olive trees filled with booming laughter now whispers beneath a barrage of bombs.


Proxima Centauri b

Cora Dean

When we're all in bunkers on Proxima Centauri b, who’s to say we won't destroy those oceans...?


Family photo of the poet with her parents, June 13, 1999

More Than God

Lucia De Luca

God sits next to her in the playroom as I distribute plastic pizza slices detached at their Velcro hips.


Gather ‘Round, One and All, to Hear a Random Boy Sharpen His Tongue against your Approval—Into a Blade that is

Thaer Husien

Behind every Palestinian life taken is the kinetic force of a thread-link snapped and the First Law of Thermodynamics is always at play.


Morning mist © April Ford

There has to be more

April Ford

The balm of Appalachia, the comfort of all the neighbours knowing my business -- how did it all go so wrong?


Detail from Starry sky © El Arbi Mrabet

Anarchic Rhymes and Moods

El Arbi Mrabet

The spontaneity of painting “natural” or “ordinary” landscapes is deeply embedded in my neurons.


Incertidumbre © Jorge Etcheverry Arcaya

Of characters and reflections

Jorge Etcheverry Arcaya

He was the loneliest man on earth. His words were not even listened to by anyone.


Sneers the poem

Nicola Vulpe

Wednesday the banks shuttered, the shop shelves went majestically bare. Not that it mattered. We were out of work, our currency not worth its paper.


Monologues for Gaza

Dipti Gupta

May we never forget that we all belong and share the space – that is Mother Earth.


Seeds of fortitude

Simon Van Vliet

All hands on deck aflame our capsizing boat lonely sinking only planet


My mother

Reckoning and resilience: Integrating the Great White North

Cyril Dabydeen

Phases of the moon. Again mirrors. Worlds in her.


Three Little Flames

Kathryn Jordan

She said she was on fire, ending the line with three little flames


Edge of Humanity

Andrés Castro

A chilling reflection on the witnessing of past and current atrocities


A hooded crow flies above snowy ground.

The Hooded Crow’s Couplets

Titiksha Pandit

Birds observe human disconnection from nature and quietude.


Steep Wade on piano

Prisoners of Bebop

Paul Serralheiro

Poet-guitarist Paul Serralheiro pays respect to Montréal’s historic jazz artists.


Mallards © Jack Breakfast, courtesy of the photographer

All there is left

Carolyne Van Der Meer

A delicate interplay between the fragility of life and the nuanced dance of relationships


Newfoundland Spring © Allie Duff

Dark and Bright

Allie Duff

Something alive under the snow makes it shiver like it’s asking not to be shovelled, scraped, or salted.


Transposing © Kathryn Jordan

Transposing

Kathryn Jordan

For more on Kathryn Jordan’s writing, photography and events, or to buy her book, please visit her website.


Maya Stewart Pathak, 2442404202004, 2020. Watercolour, pencil, viceroy butterfly wing, on cotton paper with mulberry tape, 8" x 6"

Each body

Sheila Stewart

Each body remembers the necessary distance between lovers  the space & touch, here & recalled


Wilde rozen

Ilona Martonfi

forest berries grow  by the cool rushing creek  scent of irises


Rites and Writings

Katharine Beeman

Passing the gatekeepers four times with the rite answers we left you there in the garden


Poem for Mani

Iftekhar Ahmed

In an Urdu poem, Iftekhar Ahmed expresses love and acceptance for his trans child, bridging cultural heritage with the language of understanding.


Playing in the Quantum Field

Katharine Beeman

Montréal poet Katharine Beeman shares two poems about quantum entanglement and binaries.


Hiding unhidden

Louise Carson

in which I am no longer the centre of the universe


From Fukushima to the Bay of Pigs

Fernando Moreno

A tartaruga escapa da faca afilada


Thread and Refuge

Kathryn Jordan


What I was missing here – six poems by Jila Mossaed

Jila Mossaed, Nicola Vulpe, Gazelle Bastan

Note on the poems and images Poems originally published in Swedish in Vad jag saknades här (Stockholm: Bokförlaget Lejd, 2018). English by Nicola Vulpe. Images from the series philosophy of a tree by Gazelle Bastan (2022)


Ready, The Worm, Sogenji Suite #3

Ned Baeck


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