Evelyn Lau is the author of twelve books, including seven volumes of poetry. Her fiction and non-fiction have been translated into a dozen languages; her poetry has received the Milton Acorn Award, the Pat Lowther Award and a National Magazine Award. Lau served as Vancouver Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2014; her most recent collection is Tumour (Oolichan, 2016). She lives in Vancouver.
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Evelyn Lau
Burnt
There was a fire in your former home, it was on the news. You brought me here, once, in my youth when nothing impressed me. Read more
Don't Look Down
"Now you are looking up from the bottom of the lake. You are walking past the townhouses in April under the budding trees, and drowning." Read more
Fiercely Awake
Four poems by Vancouver Poet Laureate Evelyn Lau on aging, aching and orthotics. Read more
Guanacaste Journal
The Central American vaction was all-inclusive, but she brought her own guilt, just in case. Read more
24 Sussex
Picture Harper lounging among pastel cushions, his stiff grey hair tight as a helmet on his head. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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