Nectarine [Paperback]

Memory—how we retrieve and replenish it—is at the heart ofNectarine,Chad Campbell's visionary second collection. Figures, cities, and landscapes from the author's life shift in and out of these dreamlike poems that explore the “unaccountable, uncountable” ways in which our past keeps speaking to us: through objects, through paintings, through colours, and through the spectre of places that map themselves over the places we live in. Subtle, unsettling, compressed, and full of incandescently beautiful language,Nectarineis about lost things, stranded moments, and traces preserved in time like “a glass of frozen nectarine halves / on a table made of ice.”

"Imagine an image hitting the eye with rapid-fire description, as if it were projected through a television that allowed the viewer to delight in the flicker of each frame. This is the technique Campbell favors." —Jim Johnstone,Carousel

Chad Campbellis the author of the award-nominated debut collectionLaws & Locks(Signal Editions 2015). His poems have appeared in journals across the U.K. and Canada, and are anthologized inThe Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry,The Best Canadian Poetry, andCarcanet New Poetries VIII. Originally from Toronto and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he lives in Manchester where he studies and teaches at the Centre for New Writing.