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.
Praise for Lunar Tides
"In Lunar Tides, Shannon Webb-Campbell exposes a heart that's broken
but also carried across the gulf between the moon and the sea, a heart
that knows how "grief takes up with the body." She shows us that grief
is tidal, its ebb and flow pulsing like the moon and dog-earring our
memories. This book reminds us that, grieving or not, we "need to be
held by something other than a theory." --Douglas Walbourne-Gough,
author of Crow Gulch
"Lunar Tides is both expansive and exacting, inviting us to feel our
own relationship to the ocean, belonging and mortality." --Shalan
Joudry, author of Walking Ground
