Today, we’re bringing back our mood board series with a feature on Shannon Webb-Campbell’s stunning poetry collection Lunar Tides. The following poster—comprised of family photos, Maritime scenes, waves, and moons—captures some of this collection’s dusky atmosphere. It gestures to Webb-Campbell’s fascination with the way grieving a loved one can be at once destabilizing, a pandoras […]
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Today, we pick up our In Conversation series with Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of the poetry collection Lunar Tides. Expansive and enveloping, Lunar Tides 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. Written from a mixed Mi’kmaq/settler perspective, Lunar Tides […]
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Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption. This statement from Sandra Ridley’s Silvija could serve as a thesis for today’s In the Mood for Poetry feature, which highlights collections that […]
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Poetry, like any art form, is a practice. To be a poet means mastering a certain discipline, finding one’s vocation and siphoning inspiration into form. This National Poetry Month we are inviting Book*hug poets to the blog to discuss their creative practice and some of the beliefs and influences that animate their final works. Read […]
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This Spring, we return with our Official Book Playlist series, which invites authors to create playlists for their books, and offers them a space to draw parallels between the two. Shannon Webb-Campbell starts us off with a list of coastal and moonlit tunes to accompany her new poetry book Lunar Tides—a collection which originates from […]
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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 […]
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Happy International Women’s Day! In honour of the occasion, we asked a group of Book*hug authors to speak about the female writers who have had an indelible influence on their work. Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Bahar Orang, Nic Brewer, Shannon Webb-Campbell, Therese Estacion, and Meghan Bell share a variety of thoughts and book recommendations. From classics by […]
Continue readingThe next instalment of our Spring 2022 Preview series features Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Lunar Tides, an expansive and enveloping poetry collection which explores the primordial relationships 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 […]
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Today, we’re excited to reveal our Spring 2022 season, featuring eight titles we’re know you’ll adore. Fiction The Employees by Olga Ravn, Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken Literature in Translation Series | Literary Fiction | Science Fiction $20.00 | On Sale March 8, 2022 | Available Now for Pre-order Shortlisted for the 2021 […]
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