Nebulas inhabits with such erudite sensitivity the scalar and temporal perversities or is it possibilities of pandemic still ongoing never fully past In this seemingly perpetual spacetime of risk and vulnerability KempGee reminds us across the varied landscape of these formally restless poems the uneasy coexistence of human and nonhuman life collapsing homeward deathward I left these verses which span inverted echinoderm to asteroid feathers to cometary knots mouth agape to gasp and purr with an awe about this world that can only be described as sublime Travis Chi Wing Lau author of Whats Left is Tender

Throughout the centuries poetrys sublime subject has been nature But not like this Meghan KempGees third book Nebulas cements her unique position as a talented original multifaceted mind using nature and science to understand human nature Its dazzling Every poem is unexpected Shes always burned with a biological curiosity in Nebulas she adds an astonishingly wide astronomical lens tied always to home Tennyson predicted poets would one day walk hand in hand with the man of science a century and a half later KempGee pulls CP Snows Two Cultures together into that rich and necessary whole This poet gives us so much to think about at a crucial time We soar with her remarkable imagination You wont get it and then you will Beautiful Dr Tara Cullis President The David Suzuki Foundation

Come follow Meghan KempGee on her kinetic tour from the forgotten edges of the universe into the soft heart of suburban Vancouver Filled with startlingly vivid imagery each poem is an electric meditation whether pondering the Fishhead Nebula calling its Mom back the gas station at the edge of town Lions Gate Hospital across the street or the sea creatures of Deep Cove Starring an Atlantic giant pumpkin constellations strawberries and Vancouvers SkyTrain and SeaBus Nebulas is a study in how to whimsically render the ordinary Populated with pipelines climate change ER wait times longhaulers and climbing gas prices this haunting collection also grounds us in the new uncertainties of the 21 st century For everyone who is barely holding on let Nebulas guide you if you also want to scream and scream Catherine Lewis author of Zipless

It is abundantly clear that KempGee like the speaker of Walt Whitmans When I heard the learnd astronomer has lookd up in perfect silence at the stars An impressively evocative collection of sparkling poems interconnected by mythical and mundane motifs and catalogs of closelyexamined minutiae is the result Allison M Johnson editor of The LeftArmed Corps Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans

In her latest book Nebulas Meghan KempGee has shaped gorgeous words for the many notnothings across lightyears of our universe With the stars as her guide and a firm sense of home these lustrous poems are love songs and longings and leaps of a marvelous imagination Meghan KempGees Nebulas is a lush collection of star gazings from Dolly Parton and YoYo Ma to the Big Dipper and the Witch Head Nebula And yet these profound poems also make sense of the hospital across the street and the swimming cove a few miles way Reading Nebulas Im in awe Every poem holds me in two places at once Nebulas beautifully blends science and daily life into poems that contain multitudes that magnify and amplify the points where the humanmade and natural worlds overlap and spin Here Meghan KempGee peers through both microscope and telescope to find righthanded molecules and stars wearing pigeon feathers She deftly invites us into her singular way of seeing near and far to discover the vast and fascinating somethings in between Anna Leahy author of If in Some Cataclysm

Praise for the author

KempGee is a gifted satirist whose wandering and wondering eye makes The Animal in the Room a fully unique book Nick Ripatrazone The Millions

In The Animal in the Room Meghan KempGee develops a poetics of the Anthropocene this collection of poetry can be seen as a compendium of reflections on the age of human impact Jane Frankish The British Columbia Review

From wolves handing out resums to quiet observations on the feeding habits of deer ticks throughout the collection we witness not only KempGees insightful use of animals as a way to explore human behaviour but also the way our gaze towards animals can be turned inward David Ly Plenitude Magazine on The Animal in the Room

Throughout The Animal in the Room there are poems that sparkle with inventiveness and wit as she composes a bestiary of sentences and syntax Rob McLennan Dusie

Meghan KempGees writing is hypnotizing in its undoing of the boundaries of what it means to be a person redefining emotions that are supposedly distinctly human Collin Lu Broken Pencil Magazine on The Animal in the Room