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This is How it is

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Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell’s This Is How It Is range across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a compelling display of dramatic empathy and poetic imagination. Subverting history and fable while always returning to vividly depicted images of our landscapes within the specter of environmental crisis, King-Campbell spans the far corners of the earth and the previously silent voices of our collective pasts to arrive here at our contemporary moment with poems of formal dexterity as prescient as they are captivating.

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Sharon King-Campbell

Sharon King-Campbell is a freelance theatre artist and storyteller. Her work has appeared in Riddle Fence and Word, and on stages across Newfoundland and Labrador. Sharon grew up in Ottawa and now divides her time between downtown St. John’s and a little yellow house in Winterton, NL.

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 prologue – For a wetland – if folktales are true – For Clara Schumann – A study of last year’s rushes – Crows – Cook Street – Ice Fog – … 19 $1.90

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 In spring – Aftershock – 7.1 off Gisborne. – Waitomo – Koh Talu – For Bellevue – The trees hesitate. – The city’s built for summer. – when … 20 $2.00

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 advice my father gave me: – advice my mother gave me: – Examination – Astronomy – this is how it is: – What’s the sound of ten thousand ladybugs? – On … 20 $2.00

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 Stories from Elsewhere (after Rhian Sheehan) – Sarah, who laughed and could not stop – Delilah, who felt his head light as anything – Salome, who found a rhythm all her own … 11 $1.10