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Sweet Wild Grace: On Forgiveness, Redemption, and Humanity in Elizabeth Goudge’s The Rosemary Tree

“‘We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be.  But there is one thing much more necessary.’ “‘What is that, grandmother?’ “To understand…

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September 5, 2020
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Galileo in a Different Light

Brecht created the character of Galileo to reflect on the actual scientist’s impact in the past and the world as we know it today, exemplifying how a great discovery does…

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April 28, 2019
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“It’s Not Just a Dream, it Could be Our Reality”

The little things make a difference in the bigger picture. Global warming and climate change are not new concerns, but why do some of us continue to treat it as…

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April 24, 2020
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On Kristen Renzy’s 2015 article “Dough Girls and Biscuit Boys The Queer Potential of the Countercommunal Grotesque Body within Modernist Literature”; and How I Envision Much Post-Pandemic Literature on the Human Body.

Let’s start by admitting that, in recent times, we consciously veer away from other bodies in public, that we are in fear of a lot, if not everything, that comes…

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October 13, 2021
2022 Poetry Collection, Blog

THE ESA POETRY COLLECTION

Are you an aspiring poet? Do you want to share your works with the UBC community? Now’s your chance! In response to the growing number of aspiring writers here at…

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November 10, 2022
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Barter Rings

    December 3, 2022 /

    before I was born I was granted a rite to ceremony, but it is not enough not when there are no more barter rings and only your ring-bearer bartering

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    Aiza Bragg 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    and it was all good things

    December 3, 2022 /

    i remember when we were fourteen and i said you couldn’t dance for shit because your laces were untied, and you tripped over them again and again, your smile a lighthouse, and i said god, i hope this lasts forever, otherwise i don’t know if there’s much to look forward to in twenty years – i remember when we crushed the heads of dandelions in between the asphalt and the blue marbles that my brother found discarded in the alley behind my house, milky dandelion stems and the smell of dogs outside of the elementary school when the sprinklers were all turned on – i remember when i was only…

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  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    The One Where She Falls in Love with Him

    December 2, 2022 /

    The wind that we agreed was too cold for existence whips memories of you through every exposed crevice of my sweater

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    Maddelyn Renstad 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Who do you Perform for?

    December 2, 2022 /

    “Last night molly asks me -  who do you perform for- and the questions rotates” (Boan) Who do you perform for?

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    Maddelyn Renstad 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Caught in Your Riptide

    December 2, 2022 /

    I want to climb inside you  And listen to the gossip that runs through your blood

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    Maddelyn Renstad 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Tulips

    December 1, 2022 /

    i dreamt of tulips today

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    Shanai Tanwar 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Pantone 9561 C

    December 1, 2022 /

    hi mama, please don’t freak out i want to start by saying I’m okay.

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    Shanai Tanwar 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    You

    December 1, 2022 /

    i thought i loved you honestly, i really did

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    Shanai Tanwar 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    The Security Guard

    December 1, 2022 /

    I’ve seen him every monday, wednesday, friday this november

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    Cicely Williams 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Spaghetti

    December 1, 2022 /

    This was going to be a long-winded spaghetti metaphor.

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    Amaruuk Bose 0 Comments
  • Announcements

    We’re Hiring: VP Social Programming

    December 1, 2022 /

    Do you like hosting fun events? Want to get more involved in the English department? Now is your chance!

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  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    dear my universe

    November 30, 2022 /

    the stars tell stories but not everyone can hear them. a night sky; under the expanse of the world– the watchful eyes of the cosmos what am i searching for?

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    Connie Liang 1 Comment
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    This Feels Like The End

    November 30, 2022 /

    Bleeding wishes held in your hands feel so far Hard water, the words unsaid

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    Olivia Oh 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    All I Know

    November 30, 2022 /

    All the machine knows is to operate All the spider knows is to weave

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    Olivia Oh 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Drowning

    November 30, 2022 /

    I can’t say anything We’re drowning in grey waters

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    Olivia Oh 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Rapture

    November 29, 2022 /

    i am forever chasing the next distraction

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    Salem Farmer 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Big Sun & The Crabapple Miracle

    November 29, 2022 /

    I Have you met me yet? – I am a small animal who is trying to fall in love with you. Oh, wait, no, that can’t be right.  – I woke up really slow at first and then all of the sudden. And all of the things I had been holding in my hands and in the space between my skin and my real self started to fall, which is to say I started to drop them, and then couldn’t remember how to pick them up again. I started to get smaller, and smaller, and smaller, until I exploded, until I met my real body.  – Have we met before?…

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  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Love is an old t-shirt

    November 29, 2022 /

    Your love sticks like an old t-shirt  to my skin on a rainy day.

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    Lynn Shibata 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Party Leftovers

    November 28, 2022 /

    Music still turns from the hour, once hushed by the conversation of the hour.Candle wicks burn until their end, unattended.Steam from a sidelined mug makes the air, clashing perfumes and colognes, visible.Wrinkles on the couch like a basset hound.Table runner stained with half-eaten pies left on ceramic dishes with scratchy bottoms.Shared flannel blanket draped over a battered armchair.Milk in the pitcher, passed from cocoa to tea, collects dust particles visible in the white.Fire burns bright in the low light, unattended.The skin is tight at my laugh lines like lifting a heated glass, intentionally impressing.– The frost-filled town like a photo outside;now only I am walking amongst these mementos. GiGi Kang

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    GiGi Kang 0 Comments
  • 2022 Poetry Collection

    Changes

    November 28, 2022 /

    If I knew the words of your deepest revenge I’d read them over and over again

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    Isabelle Dina 0 Comments
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