When I lived in Ottawa in the 1970s, I used to enjoy passing lazy afternoons at the National Gallery looking at the pictures. I remember how surprised I was when I first encountered the Group of Seven collection. These paintings were completely familiar—I’d seen them in schoolbooks and on calendars, posters, t-shirts, everywhere—yet at the same time they were completely unexpected.
Geist is the Canadian magazine of ideas and culture—every issue brings together a sumptuous mix of fact + fiction, photography and comix, poetry, essays and reviews, and more of the weird and wonderful from the world of words.
Geist distills the Canadian imagination into a tactile, stackable, admireable, finishable and entirely shareable magazine.
Notes & Dispatches from S.I. HASSAN, SADIE McCARNEY, MADELEINE PELLETIER and ROSE DIVECHA; New fiction by RITA SIMONETTA; Feature essays from RAYYA LIEBICH and ANIK SEE; Comic by RJ McDANIEL; Poetry by CONOR KERR; Winners of the 19th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest, and much more!