What seas sing through our bones is a journey poem and a queer love story that unfolds during a time of war, censorship and extreme border control. In a voyage that runs from Nova Scotia to San Diego, then along the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez, the poem's narrators relate the marvels and disasters they encounter as they move from one language to another, and between land and sea. 

“Sing, loves, of women who went to sea….” 

Details: Karin Cope, What Seas Sing Through Our Bones: Passages Through Canada, the United States and Mexico. Pottersfield, 2026.

See https://substack.com/@karincope for more information. 

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