Dennis Cooley Book Launch (love in a dry land)

Name: Dennis Cooley Book Launch (love in a dry land)
Start: 2024-10-29T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-29T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Tue Oct 29 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Dennis Cooley for the launch of his new poetry collection, love in a dry land (Turnstone Press).
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780888017833/dennis-cooley/love-in-a-dry-land
This launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/tRW8K2-9Cr0
In love in a dry land Dennis Cooley continues his lifelong fascination with Sinclair Ross' As for Me and My House. Shaped by Cooley's expert hands, this long poem builds upon the foundations of one of Canlit's most recognizable homes.
Recipient of the 2015 League of Canadian Poets' lifetime member award and the 2013 Manitoba Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, Dennis Cooley has been a key figure in Winnipeg's literary community for over 30 years. He has written extensively on Canadian literature, published over 20 books of poetry, and edited numerous others. For years a CanLit professor at the University of Manitoba, Dennis Cooley, now retired, lives and writes in Winnipeg.