The Granville Grange Zephyrs saw poetry in pop flies.

I was nineteen and a high-school dropout, and I had just recently left an exciting but relatively unsuccessful stint in the Royal Canadian Navy.

All the evidence suggested Serbian cricket was in tatters.

From Scrapbook of My Years As a Zealot, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2008.

Summer reading and some are not.

From Noise from the Laundry, published by Talonbooks in 2008.

From Prairie Fire, Volume 29, No. 2 (Summer 2008).

Bicycles are common but not always what you’d call obvious.

You have been followed by a writer: a spy with a panicattack.

Two men have a confrontation in a convenience store. "One is forty-seven; the other is thirty-seven. One has a gun; the other has not."

An owl researcher squares off with an over-protective bird named Granny.

A list of words gleaned from Sarah Boxer’s favourite blogs, listed in “Blogs,” an essay by Sarah Boxer published in the New York Review of Books on February 14, 2008.

From Red Nest, Gillian's first book of poetry and the winner of the ReLit Award for Poetry in 2010.

What happens when you take a famous poem and run it through a series of European language translations and back to English?

1. Remove harbour pins/securing hooks. 2. Release grips clear off the boat. 3. Check boat is clear to be lowered.

Wreford & Associates has been dormant for several quarters, so this poll is prepared for Geist by Ross Rosebery Mediatech, which continues to operate in non-dormant mode. Depositions were taken randomly at a major Canadian intersection.

Quotations from The Little Grey Flannel Book, compiled and annotated by Oline Luinenberg and Stephen Osborne (Arsenal Pulp Press).

It is proposed that: in the interest of fostering better understanding of the Canadian identity throughout the world,The Geist Foundation sponsor the Honorary Canadian Awards Program (HOCAP) by identifying and rewarding non-citizens who “act in a man

An informal survey of Canadian pedestrians yields surprising results.

A collection of epithets gleaned from issues of the defunct magazine, Frank.

This poll was prepared for Geist by Wreford & Associates. Depositions were taken randomly at major Canadian intersection.

Learn to shave like a poet: the beard must be worn with a thoughtful and forlorn expression.