Still no word

Webb-Campbell, Shannon 1983- (Author).

Summary: Shannon Webb-Campbell's debut poetry collection, Still No Word, unearths, seeks, and calls out. Webb-Campbell charts themes such as Aboriginal ancestry, loss, grief, longing, and love. Her poetry is patient, searching, questioning, and at times heart breaking. It recognizes a deep past within the present. Still No Word is a collection that is reflective, angry, sensual, and humorous, but it is socially aware and intelligent. Political at times, this isn't politics for the sake of politics: here, politics are a matter of the human heart. These poems have a rare quality of being public while remaining private and personal.

Record details

ISBN: 9781550815887 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
70 p. ; 20 cm.
Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador : Breakwater, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Harvest your heart -- What's my soul name? Ask me again and I'll tell you the same -- Emotional philosophy -- Towards definition -- Big Muise Island -- Point mistaken -- Journey lullaby (Inside the gramophone) -- Cape Race -- Cod-jigger and the shark -- The fog seeker -- A sixty-tonne blue whale slowly rots -- The octogenarian -- Needs vs. wants -- Modern astronomy -- The anthropology of headache weather -- On the sidewalk -- Mal'ta Venus -- Between Duckworth and Water Street -- A healer's lane -- Orace of Tarock -- I've been sleeping lifetimes deep on a deflate air mattress -- New Year's resolutions for the future -- Kedgeemakogee -- Aphorisms (A rule of thirds) -- Kepmite'tmnej (Honour song) -- Citta vittoriosa by candlelight -- Letters to Berlin -- Chromosome story -- Wintering -- Because we're going to Camp Mockingee -- In views of Keji -- A school of nightswimmers -- Paper snowflakes and sailboats -- This renaissance -- Our tribe -- Wildnerness ceremony -- Amelia Blue (The miraculous one) -- Last view of Bell Island -- Fire on Lake Echo -- Seeing double -- Other waves of thought -- Tell me, medicine woman, who do I belong to?