Like a Sauna Choked with Incense poem by Christopher Evans after Michael Ondaatje’s “Sweet Like a Crow” Your hair is like molasses spilled down the front of a new white stove, like the synchronized thrum of forty-two wren’s wings, like a sepia photograph of turtlenecked children Like a drink thrown in serious weather, a mahogany
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“Listening and Relistening: An Outside Account of Mental Illness” creative nonfiction by Sarah Ens
Listening and Relistening: An Outside Account of Mental Illness creative nonfiction by Sarah Ens August, 2000 Driving home from Saskatchewan, I count fence poles and trace rivers of wheat and green. I breathe out clouds onto the window to dust the giant blue sky and shift to ask Dad, “Why is Brian Wilson lying
“Queering Fear” academic essay by Tristen Kiri Brudy
Queering Fear: The Danger of Normality in J.M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy and Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit academic essay by Tristen Kiri Brudy Western society, the legal system and families are traditionally geared to protect children in order to properly prepare them for life as adults. The idea of putting
Visual Art by Lucas Glenn Co.
Library Card Series visual art by Lucas Glenn Co. dimensions: 5×7″ medium: paper on card The library card series is an ongoing collage project done on index and library cards. I form the compositions by taking content from a large and growing archive of print sources. The works represent the implementation of outside sources in
“My City” fiction by Sam Becker
My City fiction by Sam Becker My eyes were covered in razor wire just before I threw myself against the pavement. My hands are already bound with parchment. The India ink sticks firmly to my wrists and some is in my lungs as well. I will meet no one here. I have watched many
“Even a Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day” poem by Michael Prior
This work is now accessible only in the print edition, as per the author’s request. You can buy the print edition at our launch parties and ESA events, or send us a quick e-mail request.
“Lax k’naga dzol” and “gyiyaaks” photos by Tristan Ignas Menzies
“Lax k’naga dzol” Photography by Tristan Ignas Menzies “gyiyaaks” Commentary These images were taken in Tsimshian traditional territory and are part of my own ongoing project of considering the identity of the Northwest Coast and the ways that this land is perceived in the popular eye. Whether mediated by news about environmental concerns or economic
“Humanity as History, Not Science” academic essay by Ainslie Fowler
Humanity as History, Not Science: The Reconstruction of Culture through Crake’s Misanthropy in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake essay by Ainslie Fowler Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake oscillates between the post-apocalyptic world of Snowman and the Crakers and the disparate communities of the Compounds and the Pleeblands. Atwood’s pre-apocalyptic setting is an extreme
“Dirty Chai” fiction by Karen Hugdahl Meyer
Dirty Chai fiction by Karen Hugdahl Meyer The smell of coffee is thick and the whirring sound of metal blades grinding beans lends an industrial feel to this old-style European café that sits a few blocks from the university where Griffin works in Vancouver. The university campus sits on the edge of a bluff
“Jupiter” poem by Karen Hugdahl Meyer
Jupiter poem by Karen Hugdahl Meyer A boy dreams of outer space makes a rocket ship from a cardboard box. He is a small planet orbiting his sister— the sun at the centre of his universe. He asks how to spell Jupiter. She sounds the “J” j-j-jutting out her jaw draws a hook in the
“Acheron River” painting by Lily Jones
“Acheron River” painting by Lily Jones acrylic, plaster, on canvas 48″ x 48″ Commentary In Greek mythology, the dead were ferried across the Acheron by the boatman, Charon, to the underworld. With “Acheron River”, I wanted to explore the relationship we have with these fantastical stories and how they are echoed in the present world
“Tomato” poem by Maia Nichols
Tomato poem by Maia Nichols into some swamp land dream scape I trudged with a small wooden paddle and some grape juice for the morning, not looking back or harnessing any of the uncertainty that was collecting dust in my den back home, naïve yet with a slightly sour aftertaste, like the grapes growing on
“From the Top” photo by Gabrielle Lieberman
“From the Top” photo by Gabrielle Lieberman Commentary This is from an intersection in San Francisco, California, when my cousin was giving a driving tour of the city. As we got to this stop I stood up from the back seat, fascinated at the steepness of the hill in front of us – and snapped
About Our Contributors
About Our Contributors Sam Becker is a fourth-year English Honours student who will probably be graduating soon. He has probably talked to you about William Blake and then tried to make a joke. Sarah Ens moved from small-town Manitoba to Vancouver in 2010 and is currently in her first year of the UBC Creative