Happy Book Birthday to Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell 🌕
Today, we are celebrating the release of Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell! This much-anticipated follow up to I Am a Body of Land explores the primordial connections between love, grief, and water, structured within the lunar calendar. Read on to learn all about this moving collection of poems and for information on the upcoming double book launch for Lunar Tides and Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo!
We are very excited to welcome Lunar Tides by mixed Mi’kmaq/settler writer Shannon Webb-Campbell into the world! Lunar Tides has been garnering lots of pre-publication buzz, with an early review in the Washington Independent Review of Books, and a conversation between Shannon-Webb Campbell and Open Book on the creative process and major poetic inspirations.
Expansive and enveloping, Webb-Campbell’s collection asks, “Who am I in relation to the moon?” 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. It 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.
SAVE THE DATE: Double Book Launch for Cane | Fire and Lunar Tides
Join us for a double book launch to celebrate the release of Shani Mootoo’s Cane | Fire and Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Lunar Tides. Featuring readings and an interview moderated by special guest Linda Morra, who is the SFU Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar and host of the podcast Getting Lit with Linda.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
7 – 8 pm EDT | 8 – 9 pm ADT
Free online event. All are welcome. With live captions.
Registration required. Register here.
Visit the FB event page for more information.
Please join us again in wishing a very Happy Book Birthday to Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb Campbell. Purchase now from our online shop or from your local independent bookstore. Happy reading!
