JODI CLEGHORN

In Tidal: A Love Story in Five Movements, Cleghorn returns to the cut-up form in her third collection, to explore the complexities of love and second chances. Where desire surges against animosity, memory blurs into longing and time loosens its hold on certainty. Language dissolves and reforms, carrying the reader through cycles of rupture, repair, and the subsequent deepening that makes loving again possible. Built from borrowed texts, yet unmistakably her voice, these poems take on the nature of water—equally immersive, buoyant and destructive. Accompanied by reworked photography echoing each movement’s tone, Tidal takes you into the undertow of connection, where love is both anchor and undoing.