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Before Showtime, Amy Kaler Nov 2023

Before Showtime, Amy Kaler

The Goose

In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well …


The Birds Make Everything Okay, Marybeth Holleman Oct 2020

The Birds Make Everything Okay, Marybeth Holleman

The Goose

"the birds make everything okay" is a poem about where we are now, in these changing yet still beautiful times.


The Cost Of Doing Business, Kimberly C. Christensen Oct 2020

The Cost Of Doing Business, Kimberly C. Christensen

The Goose

When the last polar bear in captivity dies, a young fund manager questions their ability to continue business as usual.


A Year Without A Winter Edited By Dehlia Hannah, Conrad Scott Feb 2020

A Year Without A Winter Edited By Dehlia Hannah, Conrad Scott

The Goose

Book Review of editor Dehliah Hannah's A Year Without a Winter


Writer As Activist, Activist As Writer, Marybeth Holleman May 2019

Writer As Activist, Activist As Writer, Marybeth Holleman

The Goose

This brief essay describes the quandry and found guidelines of balancing art and activism, specifically as a writer. Examples come from the author's own work.


Uncontrolled Burn, Elizabeth Miller Sep 2018

Uncontrolled Burn, Elizabeth Miller

The Goose

Poetry by Elizabeth Miller.


Cariboo Fires, 2017, Susan Mccaslin, Mark Haddock Sep 2018

Cariboo Fires, 2017, Susan Mccaslin, Mark Haddock

The Goose

A union of poetry and photography exploring the devastating impact of the wildfires in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in the summer of 2017 in relation to climate change.


That Was Then, This Is Hell, Christine L. Lowther Sep 2018

That Was Then, This Is Hell, Christine L. Lowther

The Goose

Author describes a storm at her floating home and wonders it it is a by-product of human industry/ climate change.


A Roof Of One's Own: Widow Walking In The Anthropocene, Anna C. Mullen Sep 2018

A Roof Of One's Own: Widow Walking In The Anthropocene, Anna C. Mullen

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A nonfiction work that explores widow's walks in a time of climate change on the coasts. This piece walks the lines between speculative fiction and lyrical essay.


A Field Guide For Weathering: Embodied Tactics For Collectives Of Two Or More Humans, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Astrida Neimanis Sep 2018

A Field Guide For Weathering: Embodied Tactics For Collectives Of Two Or More Humans, Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Astrida Neimanis

The Goose

In our inherited meteorological practices and frameworks, weather conditions are managed for us in a range of ways (for example, through architecture, technology, commodity culture, infrastructure, economic rationale). This field guide brings the weather back to the body. A traditional field guide provides tools for the individual sovereign human subject to observe and document nature “over there”. In contrast, through a range of different activities, our field guide not only invites investigation and cataloguing of the field that we also comprise, but also challenges what counts as a noteworthy observation regarding the weather and also climate.


Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch Sep 2018

Sea Squad, Liam Geary Baulch

The Goose

The Sea Squad is a band of cheerleaders against climate change. Taking action as a team in formation, they gather momentum, inviting all people to cheer with them, mimicking the infinitely expandable nature of the seas' molecular structure. The work was developed and performed as a bilingual project at Est-Nord-Est in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec, Canada, and has since been performed and exhibited internationally. The following poems are some of the chants that Sea Squad use to get a crowd cheering together against climate change.


The Right To Be Cold: One Woman’S Fight To Protect The Arctic And Save The Planet From Climate Change By Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Leah Van Dyk Aug 2018

The Right To Be Cold: One Woman’S Fight To Protect The Arctic And Save The Planet From Climate Change By Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Leah Van Dyk

The Goose

Review of Sheila Watt-Cloutier's The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change.


While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein Feb 2018

While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein

The Goose

Review of M. Jackson's While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change.


Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin Sep 2016

Rapid Museum, Gary Barwin

The Goose

Poetry by Gary Barwin


The Plus Nines Of Climate Change, Lucy Burnett Sep 2016

The Plus Nines Of Climate Change, Lucy Burnett

The Goose

Poetry by Lucy Burnett


Blackcap, Seán Lysaght Mar 2016

Blackcap, Seán Lysaght

The Goose

a poem


Editor's Notebook, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Paul Huebener Sep 2015

Editor's Notebook, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Paul Huebener

The Goose

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 14, Issue 1 (2015).


Facing The Change: Personal Encounters With Global Warming Edited By Steven Pavlos Holmes, Geoff R. Martin Jul 2015

Facing The Change: Personal Encounters With Global Warming Edited By Steven Pavlos Holmes, Geoff R. Martin

The Goose

Geoff R. Martin reviews Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming.


Reading Wordsworth In The Tar Sands, Stephen S. Collis Feb 2015

Reading Wordsworth In The Tar Sands, Stephen S. Collis

The Goose

A report, in the form of a long poem, on the author's participation in the 5th annual Tar Sands Healing Walk, organized by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, in Fort McMurray Alberta.


(In)Famous Cover Tunes Of 2014, Simon Orpana Oct 2014

(In)Famous Cover Tunes Of 2014, Simon Orpana

The Goose

A cartoon and commentary by Simon Orpana.