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.
Sharon King-Campbell
Sharon King-Campbell is a theatre and literary artist based in Ktaqmkuk, colonially known as Newfoundland. She was the 2017 recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award, was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2020, and is a four-time winner of the Arts and Letters Awards in fiction, dramatic script, and poetry. Her collection of poetry, This Is How It Is, was published in 2021. Her plays Original and Give Me Back have reached audiences throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and mainland Canada.
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This is How It is - Sharon King-Campbell
I am raw as a split fish, insides
outside, and the salt – preserves – but
I’m alive, don’t you see? I
can breathe the air. The centre of a
traitor’s punishment, guts
everywhere. And here
the crows are coming
FOR A WETLAND
We came up with fairies to explain
landscapes like this: a pond,
a ridge of one-stone islands crossing it.
To mark the path, a winding stand
of birch on either side, their roots submerged
and wrapped around the rock. Follow
the aisle through the lake’s cathedral. Find
an apse of tangled branches overhead. Landscapes
like this require invention, intervention.
A mystical intention. We see wedding arches
in bent bows. We invent this magic, which
doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
if folktales are true
the spiders are the cleverest,
ravens and jackals, foxes
will see right through
their enemies. it’s the
carnivores, mid-chain:
not the prey they capture