Salad Days
Amelia transforms the Shakespearean idiom through her portrayal of positive bond-building in this poem taken from her collection, “Love, Death...
poetry
Stomaching the Landscape
Beatrix Taylor may be our Business Manager, but she’s also a poet and we didn’t even know it. Enjoy this treat we snuck into the...
Live Coverage
Daily news is filled with images of death and disaster. As corpses pile up on screen, I try to scroll past or ignore the carnage, but am drawn back...
G-paw (Grandfather)
Tala Whiting pays tribute to her grandfather in this poem about his life.
What Makes a Poet?
A gathering of students listens attentively inside the student lounge in building 355 on VIU's Nanaimo campus, myself among them. Though a cold rain...