Double Book Launch for Shani Mootoo and Shannon Webb-Campbell

Join us for a double book launch to celebrate new releases from Shani Mootoo (Cane | Fire) and Shannon Webb-Campbell (Lunar Tides). Featuring readings and an interview moderated by special guest Linda Morra, who is the SFU Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar and host of the podcast Getting Lit with Linda.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022
7 – 8 pm EDT | 8 – 9 pm ADT

Online event. Free to attend. All are welcome. With live captions.

Registration required. Register for the zoom webinar here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O1Z39iuuS268krx3K-RWCw

About Cane | Fire by Shani Mootoo:
From internationally celebrated writer and visual artist Shani Mootoo comes Cane | Fire, an immersive and vivid collection that marks a long-awaited return to poetry.

Throughout this evocative, sensual collection, akin to a poetic memoir, past and present are in conversation with each other as the narrator moves from Ireland to San Fernando, and finally to Canada. The reinterpretations and translation of this journey and its associated family history give meaning to the present. Through these deeply personal poems, and Mootoo’s own artwork, we begin to understand how a life can not only be shaped, but even reimagined.

Order your copy of Cane | Fire here: https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/shani-mootoo/cane-fire-by-shani-mootoo/

About Lunar Tides by Shannon Webb-Campbell:
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.

Order your copy of Lunar Tides here:
https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/shannon-webb-campbell/lunar-tides-by-shannon-webb-campbell/

Bios:

Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland, grew up in Trinidad, and lives in Canada. She holds an MA in English from the University of Guelph, writes fiction and poetry, and is a visual artist whose work has been exhibited locally and internationally. Mootoo’s critically acclaimed novels include Polar Vortex, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab, Valmiki’s Daughter, He Drown She in the Sea, and Cereus Blooms at Night. She is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Arts Award, a Chalmers Fellowship Award, and the James Duggins Outstanding Midcareer Novelist Award. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and includes the collection, The Predicament of Or. In 2021 Mootoo was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Western University. Her work has been long- and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dublin IMPAC Award, and the Booker Prize. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Shannon Webb-Campbell is a mixed Indigenous (Mi’kmaq) settler poet, writer, and critic. She is the author of Still No Word (2015), recipient of Eagle Canada’s Out in Print Award, and I Am A Body of Land (2019; finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry). Shannon holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and a MA in English Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of New Brunswick in the Department of English. She is the editor of Visual Arts News Magazine. Shannon is a member of Qalipu Mi’kmaq First Nation and lives in Kijpuktuk/Halifax in Mi’kma’ki.

Linda Morra is the current Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Simon Fraser University and the host/co-producer of the podcast Getting Lit With Linda. Her book, Moving Archives, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English in 2020.

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