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Everybody Knows Poets Are Weird. Margaret Avison Was Weirder

Scandalously, no press wanted to publish her long-awaited biography

17.07.2026 10

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Nicholas Bradley

Canadian Literature Needs to Stop Talking Only to Itself

Jide Salawu’s bracing poetry debut challenges the idea that national writing can exist in isolation The post Canadian Literature Needs to Stop...

18.12.2025 30

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Nicholas Bradley

She Writes about Tractors and Oil Drilling. She’s Also Changing Canadian Poetry

At fifty-eight, Karen Solie is one of our major poets. You might find her on her family farm in Saskatchewan The post She Writes about Tractors and...

13.06.2025 20

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Nicholas Bradley

Two Runners

After, they are hoarse / and slow. They jog The post Two Runners first appeared on The Walrus.

22.05.2025 30

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Nicholas Bradley