Lunar Tides

by Shannon Webb-Campbell

Published by: Book*hug Press

Imprint: Book*hug

Sales Date: 2022-04-05

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Published: April 2022

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Imprint: Book*hug

Page Count: 96 Pages

Dimensions: 6.00 x 8.00

96 Pages, 6.00 x 8.00 x 0.28 in

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ISBN: 9781771667388

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Expansive and enveloping, Webb-Campbell's collection asks, "Who am I in relation to the moon?" These poems explore the primordial connections between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar.

The poetics follow rhythms of the body, the tides, the moon, and long, deep familial relationships that are both personal and ancestral. Originating from Webb-Campbell's deep grief of losing her mother, Lunar Tides charts the arc to finding her again in the waves. Written from a mixed Mi'kmaq/settler perspective, this work also explores the legacies of colonialism, kinship, and Indigenous resurgence.

Lunar Tides is the ocean floor and a moonlit night: full of possibility and fundamental connections.

SHANNON WEBB-CAMPBELL is of Mi’kmaq and settler heritage. She is a member of Flat Bay First Nation. Her books include Lunar Tides (2022; longlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award), I Am a Body of Land (2019; finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry), and Still No Word (2015; recipient of Egale Canada’s Out in Print Award). Webb-Campbell is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick, and the editor of Muskrat Magazine and Visual Arts News. She currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

LUNAR TIDES NEW Time: A Biography Living at Low Tide Ecology of Being Tides Definition Who Am I in Relation to the Moon? Bloodstone New Moon Suddenly Aware (A Lunar Cycle Begins) WAXING CRESCENT Codfish Tides Great & Lower Than Average Tides Home Was Calling Our Little Girl’s Book Aurora Alert Told You I Don’t Believe in Soul Mates East Versus West A Winter Sky Sleeping With Northern Lights FIRST QUARTER If I Wasn’t a Fury Long Distance Call at Lost Lake Hinge Moon and Sun Reinforce One Another Solar Poison A Variation on Alchemy Lunar Vibrations WAXING GIBBOUS I Am Pulsar Centreline Poem for a Phantom Valentine Rooftop Oracles Liminality Short Talk From Italy Kepe’kek/ At the Narrows FULL Our Cove House Portals Grief Q&A Menagoesg Redux Gothic Arches How Theory Works You Came Back on Full Moon Magnetic Mortal Trip WANING GIBBOUS Cosmology of Rough Magic Lemon Came in the Night Holding Hands Down Amelia Street Upon World Moves You Can’t Fly on One Wing Slow Dancing in a Bachelor Apartment to Joni Mitchell Erotic Ecology LAST QUARTER Push/Pull Returning Closer to Earth Time You Were Never a Visitor to This World I Need to Be Held by Something Other Than a Theory Wild Geese Came Final View of Bell Island WANING CRESCENT Poem for Frida Kahlo As Mother Solitude How to Make Moonwater Travel Light, My Love High Tide Groundwater Wild(ish) Looking Glass Tides

"The structure of the collection, following as it does the waxing and waning of the moon, the ebbing and flowing of the tide, both reinforces the ongoing harm of colonial and capitalist ways of thinking, ways that insist on a tidy and timely resolution of grief and, later in the collection, assembles an alternative vision: 'Learn that loss has its own time, and you are a small animal reeling.'" —Winnipeg Free Press

"Webb-Campbell explores the idea of 'mother' as meta-origin birthplace/home and also the literal mother of the poems' speaker, who is grieving her own mother's death." —The Washington Independent Review of Books

"The poems in Lunar Tides seek to define grief, and ultimately find a path toward healing. We, all of us, have two mothers: Our human mothers, as well as our Mother Earth. To understand that connection is to understand ourselves." —Roses and Reviews

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