WOLFCANNON - Calypso Jane Selwyn
in those days i was half-mad
my limbs spasmed, my head
sizzled static at night
but i could crouch to find a raccoon's gaze
hands moving, eyes still,
- whisperer
In the language of rebuke and defiance, Calypso Jane Selwyn takes us inside the myth that is woman, and traces the ancient right through to the now. In its attempt at a baring, WOLFCANNON asks only the most important of questions: on the power of insects, queer toothed love, and regret; and what if the Roman Republic had had a giant wolf mecha you could fuck?
Advance Praise for WOLFCANNON by Calypso Jane Selwyn:
Calypso Jane Selwyn's WOLFCANNON is primordial like reading uncensored scripture; violent and marbled in its beauty; a cracked open clam, wet with muscle and flavoured of bloody saltwater. Is this mythical parable, or is it stark reality—all pretense dropped, showing us insectile corporeality? Both, woven together in a tale that leaves you with weeping wounds and the squeeze of a hand that says me too.
- dre levant, author of sun eater and icarus rising
Calypso Jane Selwyn’s WOLFCANNON reimagines myth and memory through a lens that's both devastatingly intimate and ecologically attuned. Selwyn's poems pulse with queer desire and ecological grief, howling at the intersections of personal and planetary violence while still finding moments of tender connection in unexpected places. This collection cracked me open—I found myself recognizing my own wildness and wounds in her startling imagery that refuses domestication.
- Megan Kaminski, author of Gentlewomen, Deep City, and Desiring Map
Release Date: June 17th, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964932-16-3
44 pages
in those days i was half-mad
my limbs spasmed, my head
sizzled static at night
but i could crouch to find a raccoon's gaze
hands moving, eyes still,
- whisperer
In the language of rebuke and defiance, Calypso Jane Selwyn takes us inside the myth that is woman, and traces the ancient right through to the now. In its attempt at a baring, WOLFCANNON asks only the most important of questions: on the power of insects, queer toothed love, and regret; and what if the Roman Republic had had a giant wolf mecha you could fuck?
Advance Praise for WOLFCANNON by Calypso Jane Selwyn:
Calypso Jane Selwyn's WOLFCANNON is primordial like reading uncensored scripture; violent and marbled in its beauty; a cracked open clam, wet with muscle and flavoured of bloody saltwater. Is this mythical parable, or is it stark reality—all pretense dropped, showing us insectile corporeality? Both, woven together in a tale that leaves you with weeping wounds and the squeeze of a hand that says me too.
- dre levant, author of sun eater and icarus rising
Calypso Jane Selwyn’s WOLFCANNON reimagines myth and memory through a lens that's both devastatingly intimate and ecologically attuned. Selwyn's poems pulse with queer desire and ecological grief, howling at the intersections of personal and planetary violence while still finding moments of tender connection in unexpected places. This collection cracked me open—I found myself recognizing my own wildness and wounds in her startling imagery that refuses domestication.
- Megan Kaminski, author of Gentlewomen, Deep City, and Desiring Map
Release Date: June 17th, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964932-16-3
44 pages
in those days i was half-mad
my limbs spasmed, my head
sizzled static at night
but i could crouch to find a raccoon's gaze
hands moving, eyes still,
- whisperer
In the language of rebuke and defiance, Calypso Jane Selwyn takes us inside the myth that is woman, and traces the ancient right through to the now. In its attempt at a baring, WOLFCANNON asks only the most important of questions: on the power of insects, queer toothed love, and regret; and what if the Roman Republic had had a giant wolf mecha you could fuck?
Advance Praise for WOLFCANNON by Calypso Jane Selwyn:
Calypso Jane Selwyn's WOLFCANNON is primordial like reading uncensored scripture; violent and marbled in its beauty; a cracked open clam, wet with muscle and flavoured of bloody saltwater. Is this mythical parable, or is it stark reality—all pretense dropped, showing us insectile corporeality? Both, woven together in a tale that leaves you with weeping wounds and the squeeze of a hand that says me too.
- dre levant, author of sun eater and icarus rising
Calypso Jane Selwyn’s WOLFCANNON reimagines myth and memory through a lens that's both devastatingly intimate and ecologically attuned. Selwyn's poems pulse with queer desire and ecological grief, howling at the intersections of personal and planetary violence while still finding moments of tender connection in unexpected places. This collection cracked me open—I found myself recognizing my own wildness and wounds in her startling imagery that refuses domestication.
- Megan Kaminski, author of Gentlewomen, Deep City, and Desiring Map
Release Date: June 17th, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964932-16-3
44 pages