Duncan Mercredi Book Launch (Only the Scent of You Remained)

Name: Duncan Mercredi Book Launch (Only the Scent of You Remained)
Start: 2025-09-23T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-23T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Tue Sep 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Duncan Mercredi for the launch of his new poetry collection, Only the Scent of You Remained (At Bay Press). Presented as part of THIN AIR 2025, an annual fall celebration of books and writing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781998779871/duncan-mercredi/only-the-scent-of-you-remained
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/hhE34UIg3eE
Duncan Mercredi was Winnipeg's Poet Laureate in 2021. In this frank, raw, and honest collection the poet chases down the river of who he is. Each bend, each stone, every waterfall, a sharing of self. Then the writings can be rolled up and when the time comes, the time that he leaves the place he calls home, they will be placed on the sacred fire. To return to where they came from.
You are invited to walk with the author during intimate reflection and pause to remember the people who have been a part of his life and journey, the ones who influenced him, both good and bad. The paths taken, the roads travelled that led him to this city. As the wick burns the last of its wax we recognize its existence as the scent of smoke still remains long after the light goes out.
Duncan Mercredi: Cree/mixed, born in Misipawistik aka Grand Rapids, MB, part of the Indigenous Writers' Collective, storyteller, writer, travelled extensively around Turtle Island, sharing stories and poetry, not so much anymore, not much of a traveling man these days.