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Nebulas

By (author): Meghan Kemp-Gee

Poems that look at our little world from space 

In Nebulas, Meghan Kemp-Gee positions these giant clouds of glowing space dust, often the ‘nursery’ where new stars and planets are born, in an interconnected web of lyric form. As dazzling masses of matter and energy, fleeting, exploding and collapsing, creating connection across incomprehensible distances, these poems use constellations and light-years to reconfigure how art, mortality, loss, death, and afterlives are miraculous echoes and patterns in a gorgeous, chaotic universe.

Included in this dazzling collection are an extraterrestrial fox who works at a gas station, meditations about living across from a hospital during the Omicron surge, weathering climate disasters in North Vancouver, strange deep-sea ecosystems, conversations with a space-god who may be Walt Whitman, and multiple retellings of a Zen koan about tigers and strawberries. Here, respiration and repetition – literally, verse – acts as an outstanding formal feature, a way of creating connections and shared breath across spacetime.

AUTHOR

Meghan Kemp-Gee

Meghan Kemp-Gee writes poetry, comics, and scripts of all kinds. She has also worked as a writing teacher, screenplay consultant, and ultimate frisbee coach. She received her BA from Amherst College and MA and MFA from Chapman University. She currently lives somewhere between Vancouver and Fredericton, where she is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick.


Reviews

‘Throughout the centuries, poetry’s sublime subject has been nature. But not like this! Meghan Kemp-Gee’s second book, Nebulas, cements her unique position as a talented, original, multi-faceted mind using nature and science to understand human nature. It’s dazzling. Every poem is unexpected. She’s always burned with a biological curiosity; in Nebulas she adds an astonishingly wide astronomical lens, tied always to home. Kemp-Gee pulls C. P. Snow’s “Two Cultures” – humanities and science – together into a rich and necessary whole. This poet gives us so much to think about, at a crucial time. We soar with her remarkable imagination. You won’t get it, and then you will. Beautiful!’ – (Edit of Dr. Tara Cullis’s blurb)

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, Kemp-Gee reminds us across the varied landscape of these formally restless poems the uneasy coexistence of human and non-human life, collapsing homeward

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Details

Dimensions:

128 Pages
8.25in * 0.46in * 0.48in
5.25lb

Published:

May 19, 2026

Publisher:

Coach House Books

ISBN:

9781552455258

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature

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Language:

eng

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