Join Shannon Webb-Campbell LIVE on Instagram @we.are.visitors from 12 pm (Atlantic) on Thursday, April 30th for a #nationalpoetrymonth reading. This will be a chance to spend around fifteen minutes listening to a selection of poems chosen by the author from her latest book, I Am a Body of Land.
I Am a Body of Land
Finalist for the 2019 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.
Edited, and with an Introduction, by Lee Maracle.
If poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning.
Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and her own poetic strategies. These poems are efforts to decolonize, unlearn, and undo harm.
Reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell’s confessional writing circles back, and challenges what it means to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity, belonging, and attempts to cry out for community, and call in with love.
From Book*Hug
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Opening Reception:
Friday, February 7th, 2020
Visitors (145 Union Street, Saint John, NB)
5:00 - 8:00 p.m
Free
Everything Out of Place is a collection of new artwork by Hailey Guzik opening at Visitors on February 7th, 2020. Hailey Guzik is an emerging Canadian artist working in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, QC. The exhibition explores social attitudes towards landscapes and the tradition of landscape painting in art. Hailey’s play-driven process results in paintings and sculptures that deconstruct views of well known scenery, referencing areas familiar to her through her experiences growing up in New Brunswick. She remixes the essential components of landscape and figurative painting, blending the natural and manufactured, the perceivable and imagined, and invites us to reflect on our own role in shaping the environment.
Browse the Collection