The Lyre

"A Pity"

Joy Kuang — 2024-01-12

Response to Octavio Paz's "I Speak of the City"

Darian Feakes — 2024-01-12

Vegan, Coloured-Friendly Packaging

Richa Daiya — 2024-01-12

Exotic Poetry

Richa Daiya — 2024-01-12

Techno- Hysteria

Daniel Cheung — 2024-01-12

Anxiety for the future

Life

Hugo Xiao — 2024-01-12

Photo Art

Belle Villar — 2024-01-12

Photos taken while exploring!

Photographs

Vincent Tram — 2024-01-12

Life In Movement

Sara Aristizabal Castaneda — 2024-01-12

This piece talks about how life is in constant movement. and in that movement there is an uncertainty, there is an insecurity and a displacement of not standing on solid ground. Right now, we are experiencing a lot of change, fast change, that can leave us wondering where we stand, leave us wondering about what our future might look like with so much innovation in play. This piece conveys all these feelings of fear and uncertainty but also hope.

birthdays

Ammarah Siddiqui — 2024-01-12

tw: suicide, self harm, loss.

friendship that transcends time and the healing process.

dance of a lifetime

Paige Gant — 2024-01-12

the mirror

Amanda Blake — 2024-01-12

This is a poem chronicling my complicated relationship with my ancestors and the love/hate relationship I feel towards certain elements of my being. Excerpts from conversations I've had with my therapist have been used as the founding basis for the piece.

point zero one

Ammarah Siddiqui — 2024-01-12

a poem detailing the incalculability of abstracts like love.

scream

Hilary Tsui — 2024-01-12

AI-carus

Edward (Pin Chau) Huang — 2024-01-12

I write this poem to express my distrust for artificial intelligence because I think AI cannot represent humans in any way. Nowadays, people are confused and cannot tell human values from capitalistic and scientific values. We are like Icarus; we use technology to gain material success and escape cruel nature. However, if we cannot recognise and reflect on the difference between humans and AI, catastrophe will eventually burn us like what it did to Icarus.

Cradle 2 Da Grave

Seva Pandher — 2024-01-12

DIVINE BY DAYLIGHT

Milo Whynott — 2024-01-12

Fallen Flowers

Alex Masse — 2024-01-12

This is a poem that I find really fits the theme of the magazine's issue, as it's a sort of ode to the vulnerability I witness in nature--specifically, the beauty of dying flowers, which I love to rescue and preserve. It's a natural instinct for me to want to do that, and it's a kind of quality I wish more people had, especially when it came to the people around them.

I Have An Accent

Sara Aristizabal Castaneda — 2024-01-12

This piece is inspired by my experiences as a Colombian in an international setting. The prejudice I have endured and my journey to feel proud about my accent and my heritage

Musicality

Emma Adams — 2024-01-12

Amara

Salomé Mengo Morales — 2024-01-12

Life can be hard when the person you love and share your life with keeps pushing you away. When love tastes like denial and lies we can easily lose our sense of reality, the only outcome of relationships like this is artificial love.

Ask

Safiya Shah — 2024-01-12

Dear Chinatown, I miss you

Amy Ng — 2024-01-12

Ghazal for Growing Pains

Mason Rowan — 2024-01-12

Julianna walking at night

Isobel Sinclair — 2024-01-12

A study of modern interactions and young adult relationships from the narrative perspective of a woman on the path to finding herself.

Interview with Joao Reis - Portugese Writer and Translator / Interview with Mercedes Eng - Chinese-Canadian Writer, Poet and Teacher

Bianca Weima — 2024-01-12

Interviews with authors, Joao Reis and Mercedes Eng.

Interview with Fabio Andina - Swiss Author

Vincent Tram — 2024-01-12

Interview with author Fabio Andina.