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