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The word "magyarázni" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address,

At McDonald's, when I'm throwing out the stuff on my tray, there's a point where I get scared that my wallet could have been on there, too.

Need Machine clamours through the brain like an unruly marching band.

Shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Translation.

When a mad dentist steals people's teeth, Miss Lamp comes to town.

New Theatre stages a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that calls into question the process and nature of meaning.

Winner of the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play. Winner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Stage Award for Best Performance, 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

A spun radio dial passing clean through poetry. A stuttering loop of Endgame recorded by Stockhausen, remixed by Kraftwerk. The chatter of minotaurs and metadata.

Nominated for a Griffin Poetry Prize.

Winner of the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize. Winner of the 2012 Relit Award for Best Novel. Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction.

Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women?

MxT, or ‘Memory x Time,’ is one of the formulas acclaimed poet Sina Queyras posits as a way to measure grief.

Poet Margaret Christakos, throughout her eight previous poetry collections, has created ruptures and splices inside of and against the limits of the confessional lyric, often using recombinatory pr

Nominated for a 2005 Governor General's Award Alice Charles has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry.

Her hands lay inert and upturned on her lap – probably stunned, she thinks, by the hideousness of the skirt underneath them.