National Poetry Month Spotlight: Shannon Webb-Campbell

We’re back with the seventh feature in our National Poetry Month Poet Spotlight series. Next up is Shannon Webb-Campbell!

We have had the pleasure of publishing two previous collections by Shannon including I am a Body of Land and Lunar Tides. This year we are honoured to be publishing her latest collection of poems Re: Wild Her! In nature, rewilding restores biodiversity and ecosystems. In this new collection from award-winning poet Shannon Webb-Campbell, it is a form of Indigenous resurgence and pleasure.

Without further ado, please enjoy “Stardust Woman” from Re: Wild Her, which is now available for purchase! Please follow along for more National Poetry Month Poet Spotlights all month long.

STARDUST WOMAN

when you roll with a stardust woman

Scorpion to the bone, you’ll see comets throw

blazes across the blackest of night

a femme made of cooling gases from stars

who steals Veuve Clicquot from a capricious lover

pours you a flute, wearing metallic sequins

you drink dust grains blowing across space

she’s no violent supernova, but you know

her ex-lover will be destroyed again

through decay she gifts

a packet of seedlings to plant after the thaw

muses about her grandmother who waltzed

down the aisle carrying a sprig of sweet peas