I Used to Be a Pisces by Camilla Gibb

Award-winning, bestselling author Camilla Gibb returns with her first poetry collection, a profound new work that examines our relationships to the earth and one another.

I Used to Be a Pisces is a deeply felt meditation on love and belonging, exploring changing landscapes, loves, and selves. In these poems, accompanied by her original collage work, Gibb generously invites us to engage with our surroundings, recognize the relationships that shape our existence, and examine our longing for restoration and regeneration.

Grappling with what it means to feel at home in a time of upheaval, and woven through with threads of hope, grief, and the persistent pursuit of renewal, I Used to Be a Pisces is a masterful poetic work from one of the country’s most beloved and celebrated authors.

Praise for I Used to Be a Pisces

“Camilla Gibb’s debut collection reveals that poetry lies at the core of her celebrated and widely known works of fiction and memoir. Brilliant in form and relevant to us all, I Used to Be a Pisces is a beautiful and outstanding book.” —A. F. Moritz, author of Great Silent Ballad

“I Used to Be a Pisces is a brilliant, subtle, and thoughtful book. Camilla Gibb’s powerful images simultaneously animate gestures, situations, sensations, emotions, danger, and beauty. The narrative tension that emerges creates a collage of beings, animals, objects, nature, and thoughts, with magnificent results.” —Nicole Brossard, author of Distantly

Press Coverage

2026 Spring Preview: Short Fiction, Graphic Novels & Poetry —Quill & Quire

Most Anticipated: Our Spring 2026 Poetry Preview —49th Shelf

28 new Canadian poetry titles to check out this spring —CBC Books

“The poems of I Used to Be a Pisces, collected with accompanying collage-works by the author, are intimate and sharp, taking narrative twists, overlays and turns; they begin, offering a series of openings and suggestions of where each might travel, allowing the reader their own scope and agency to enter.” —rob mclennan’s blog

TNQ National Poetry Month Reading List —The New Quarterly

Just One Question for Camilla Gibb —The Needle and the Knife