Tyler Blair (he/him) is a painter and writer studying at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, B.C. He loves to make art exploring issues of queerness, masculinity, and the interplay between written and visual languages. You can find his poems in Vermillion Lit and Stone of Madness Press.
& the first slip into clear running water by the moon. I want to be a wild animal caught in the glimpse of your gaze & when you look again I am gone. Make the memory of my body a flock of bats erupting. A feral bark. Let the threat of myself prowl. I would like to live on as the plummet in...
Content warning: gun violence It was Christmas Eve and Ogre had a semi-automatic pistol in her waistband. Her hand flinched towards it every other minute—when a car door slammed around the corner, when Liq let out a muffled laugh, when a neighbour’s dog whined at its leash. She stumbled on the back...
look back and you’ll find a boy hot on your trail. smiling at your arms outstretched. reaching for something called horizon. the cold breeze. the gloveless fingers. I don’t mind if you’re in front. if somehow. I could frame this place on a map of us. I’ll tell you a secret: (I don’t know if I’ve...
When you tell me to run, I can’t help but wonder if you really mean me or the busy blue heron to the right of me, its neck like an enchanted oboe charming the residents of the river where fish swarm in wild despair—because surely this danger is a farce, surely not all gators bite. To the insect...
I was a gluttonous child. From their first tentative offerings of pap, my parents knew I wanted more. They could see it in the way I grabbed at the spoon and the bowl, the way my nostrils flared and I screeched when they were not ready with the next bite. They discarded The Common Sense Book of...
Reviewed by Tawahum Bige Connor Lafortune and Lindsay Mayhew, eds., A Thousand Tiny Awakenings (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2025), 84 pp., $20.00. The term “activist poetry” elicits an array of connotations and responses. For many activated by the world around them, the term is a pigeonhole—used by...
Interview by L’Amour Lisik In connection with the annual Victoria Festival of Authors taking place October 16 to 20, 2024, Plenitude prose editor L’Amour Lisik interviews Leanne Dunic, whose latest poetry collection, Wet, was released in Spring 2024 with Talonbooks. Leanne Dunic transgresses genres...
It’s a Pride mashup! To celebrate Pride in Vancouver through the month of August, Plenitude Magazine is pairing with the Vancouver Public Library for a live literary reading and speed friending event! On Tuesday, August 26 at 6:30pm, join us at the downtown branch to hear local Plenitude authors...
