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Evelyn Lau

Evelyn Lau is a Vancouver writer, author of nine books, most recently a col­lec­tion of poetry, Treble (Raincoast, 2005).

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Image: Kate Crane

24 Sussex

Picture Harper loung­ing among pas­tel cush­ions, his stiff grey hair tight as a hel­met on his head.

Into the Fire

Again we found our­selves at the shore­line,
among shards of shell and plas­tic,
scrim of sea­weed trap­ping my feet like a net.

Love Song to America

Reflections on John Updike’s death

Reunion

He looked vaguely famil­iar— there was a sort of out­line around his ­fea­tures that I almost rec­og­nized, a translu­cent and shift­ing vis­age, as of some­one I once knew.He looked vaguely famil­iar— there was a sort of out­line around his ­fea­tures that I almost rec­og­nized, a translu­cent and shift­ing vis­age, as of some­one I once knew.

Yaletown Suite

She would see him sometimes around Yaletown, her former counsellor, heading glassy-eyed toward a bar or creeping up the back steps of the massage parlour.

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