findings

Cecil Paul
Return of the G'psgolox Pole

Look for it. Look for the totem.

Patrick Lane
For Al Purdy

"Only throw empty bottles at the moon."

Mika Lafond
âcimowak / stories

"italy—he says / that's where he left his finger"

MICHAEL CRUMMEY
You Don't Know Your Dinghy from Your Punt

A fictional Newfoundland where raccoons run rampant, local fishermen buy fish and women use skin creams from France.

Love Galore

A poem written on the bathroom stall in Chamberlain, Saskatchewan.

WENDY MCGRATH
Heaven's Scent

If there weren't any words, would we just draw each other pictures?

ANDREW NORMAN WILSON
ScanOps

The hands of Google workers slipping into view.

Monkey Chatter

A list of episode titles from season five of Da Vinci’s Inquest.

Sunshine Chen
Overtime: Portraits of a Vanishing Canada

"It actually is something beating inside this building, keeping it alive …"

Forbidden Metadata

A selection of temporarily banned hashtags (the non-lewd kind).

LAURA MATWICHUK
Composite: Black Hole

"Interstellar magnet, collapsed object, feature-less by design".

ALERT S. ROSALES
Shimmery Sighting

Experiences that do not easily fit into other categories.

Brett Ingram
Meanwhile in Rocaterrania

Ronaldo Kuhler spent sixty years creating a secret country wedged between Canada and the US.

OISIN CURRAN
Flash, Bang, Whistle, Boom

"My Follower is still after me. I can feel it back there but can’t see it."

Outlandishness 101

A list of chapter headings from "How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry" by Adam Sol.

MICHAEL REDHILL
How I Got To Sleep

Remembering lost recipes, repelling Nazi scourge, catching bullfrogs at the edge of Pine Lake, drove the narrowing roads north.

AMY SPURWAY
If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen Party

"Tree branches. Newspapers. Memories. She’s all going up in flames tonight."

JUSTIN E.H. SMITH
The No-brainer Problem

Not having a brain, yet doing the correct thing anyway is the ultimate expression of reason.

CATHERINE LEROUX
Marshmallow Cases

She is a pensioner, the traveler, the first Québécoise I ever kissed and the one we’ve been searching for for years.

KEN HUNT
Last Words

"Uh-oh. / Get us out."

LATIESHA FAZAKAS
Devoured by Consumerism

Beau Dick reclaims the cultural value of materials often associated with consumerism.

KATHERENA VERMETTE
when Louis Riel went crazy

"a brief place / nondescript / but the prideful home of my great-great uncle and aunt"

SARAH DE LEEUW
Force of Nature

"garbage foraging under streetlights, nights / far from forests, dens with pups and fish"

Simpler Things

The way Terese Marie Mailhot looks at her mother is not how others want to see her.