Dog and Moon
Marilyn Stanley
, Alanna Virtue
, Dot Mann
, Taya Young
, Melissa Kohlman
, Natasha Andres
, Jude Castillo
, Brad MULLER
, SI Parker
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Shelley Butcher
, Sailaxmi Sahoo
, Ryan Woods
, Dawn Macdonald
, Sara Mody
, Jessica Smith
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sarah Dalton
, cassandra schiemann
, Darryl Taylor
, Marc-André Taillefer
, Sarah Schwartz
, Catherine Booker
, Noelle Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Andrea Pole
, Susan Toy
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Tami Osato
, Holly Elisabeth
, Emily Steiner
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Brittney Warren
, Katie Macalister
, Itraa Gold
, katie locke
, Kim Cappellina
, kristine hibbs
, Barry Kazimer
, Jillian Wheatley
, Anita Jones
, Spencer Reitenbach
, Desmond Tsang
, Joshua Lewis
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Ashley Pocrnich
, Joe Titone
, tom stormonth
, Macy McCubbing
, Sara Conway
, Vicki Bedford
, Liz Carlin
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Taylor MaGee
, Shawna Moodie
, Lara Maynard
, Roland Schigas
, Tanis Anne
, Kartik Gupta
, Kate Hudson
, diana kirkwood
, Benita Hartwell
, Ariel Kroon
, Charlotte Gray
, Tina May
, M M English
, Lynn Bechtel
, Julie M.
, Cherryl Koylass
, Robert Hykawy
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Chantal Vulker
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Kim Akins
, C. Ray
, Nancy Reid
, Nancy Daoust
, Sharon Forzley
, Ken Gilmour
editor@49thShelf.com
A dreamlike collection of poetry that intertwines an embodied experience of the natural world with mythology, memory, and the creative process
Woven together from fragments collected in notebooks and dream journals over two decades of introspection, Dog and Moon inhabits a space of sleeplessness, enveloped in the darkness of night. Kelly Shepherd draws inspiration from the free-verse ghazal but takes the form and bends it, introducing couplets that recur and echo across his poems. They are a series of juxtapositions: nature writing placed in conversation with the language of poetry workshops, mythology and childhood memories, and sensorial encounters with the natural world colliding with images of home and belonging.
