“The rhythms of Moore’s poetry, the quiet humour of her dexterous mind, and her brave questioning quickly won my trust. The Whole Singing Ocean is a gorgeous music and an act of daring listening to what we know but don’t want to know. It left me with a feeling of rare freedom.”

“These poems swirl together like plastic refuse in the ocean, where a whale is said to rise ‘like an arpeggio from the dark.’ Readers will find this a fascinating and occasionally uneasy collection that captures the friction in beauty and transgressions.”

“The Whole Singing Ocean is a narrative poem of immensities rising from the deep: whales, microplastics, acoustic smog, grief, rapture, abuse. This book does the deep and winding work, the honest and sometimes horrifying, always courageous work of healing. Like the long lines of whale songs, Moore’s polyvocal, lyric tale arrives in ‘pulses and pings and clicks of rhythm / rapturous and piercing at once.’ Where the glittering eye of the ancient mariner holds the wedding guest rapt, this tale issues from the massive eye of a whale. This is a gorgeous book.”

“The Whole Singing Ocean is an evocative and challenging read.”

“Lush, clear-eyed and insightful...a luminous poem.”