Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Banana” by Christine Wu.

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Banana

By Christine Wu

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Copyright © Christine Wu

Previously published in Familial Hungers (Brick Books, 2025).

Christine Wu was the winner of the 2023 PEN Canada New Voices Award and a finalist for the 2022 Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her debut poetry collection, Familial Hungers, is out now with Brick Books.

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