October 09, 2017

Interview: Jordan Abel

October 09, 2017/ SAD Mag

I was drawn to the western for a few reasons. One: it’s a genre that very often seems to represent Indigenous peoples in problematic, stereotypical ways. Two: there are thousands of western novels that are now in the public domain, but it is also a genre that is still very much alive today. Three: many North Americans have a deep and troubling nostalgia for the genre (which is also often intertwined with a kind of romanticizing of colonization that could also been seen as a romanticizing of Indigenous genocide).

October 05, 2017

Interview: Leanne Dunic

October 05, 2017/ SAD Mag

The saltwater and terrain of Bowen Island is where I’ve been most successful in writing poetry/prose. As an artist, I feel most grounded and inspired by the complexity of Japan, and when I’m in Singapore, I’m grounded in the sense that I’ve eaten too much food and can’t move.

June 13, 2017

Cheese Poetry: growth by Caitlin Baird

June 13, 2017/ Caitlin Baird

i like the part when she signs the papers: yes, cut.

Our Cheese issue launched in May. Here on the web, we're keeping the theme alive with this poem by Caitlin Baird.

May 16, 2017

Cheese Poetry: The Animacy of Floods

May 16, 2017/ Selina Boan

Our Cheese issue launches May 27th at Make and features a poem by Selina Boan. Here on the web, we've got another poem by this brilliant young poet for you.

March 24, 2017

Everything is Awful and You're a Terrible Person

March 24, 2017/ Keagan Perlette

Twitter, Facebook and Grindr conspire to build and break relationships in this collection. The hand of technology is ever-present, mirroring the ghostly specters of relationship baggage and dead loved ones, but Zomparelli’s take on modern love is far from cheesy.

February 01, 2017

Eating Matters by Kara-lee MacDonald

February 01, 2017/ Keagan Perlette

The poem beginning “the hardest part is knowing,” reveals the shame of all educated feminists who remain victims of themselves: that struggle between the intellect knowing better and the body self-destructing at the hands of learned behaviors. She writes “at the end of the day / ––theory fails / to account for disjunction / between bodily urges and / rational thought.”

January 30, 2017

Poem: First Time Right After

January 30, 2017/ Curtis AuCoin

If you attended our Secrets launch you may have indulged our call for confessions and left a secret or two behind for us to peruse. Some secrets appeared on our Instagram before we passed them on to Curtis AuCoin, who turned them into a poem. Here's the result, accompanied by images from AuCoin's series "What's Personal, What's Secret."

January 25, 2017

In Conversation with Melanie Murray

January 25, 2017/ SAD Mag

"So began my search for Jean Armour. Over the next couple of years I read many biographies about Burns as well as his extensive collections of letters, poems, and songs, trying to piece together a picture of Jean from the fragments written about her. She emerged as a footnote in the life of the poet, a blurry image that wouldn’t come into focus, a stereotype of the devoted, long-suffering wife."

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