Land and Labour Poetry Collective Book Launch (I'll Get Right On It)

Name: Land and Labour Poetry Collective Book Launch (I'll Get Right On It)
Start: 2025-09-27T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-27T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Sat Sep 27 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Winnipeg representatives of The Land and Labour Poetry Collective as they celebrate the launch of I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis (Fernwood Publishing). Hosted by Collective members and editors Jamie Paris and Melanie Dennis Unrau.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781773637440/land-and-labour-poetry-collective-the/ill-get-right-on-it
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/Akvvy5Zkh3A
Presented as part of THIN AIR 2025, an annual fall celebration of books and writing. Co-presented by the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition (MEJC).
Featuring readings from contributors Levy Abad, Mike Bagamery, Myla Chartrand, Jean Clipsham, Renee Cronley, Jennifer deGroot, Amanda Donnelly, Kristian Enright, A.W. Glen, Lance Guilbault, Duncan Mercredi, Cole Osiowy, Mhao (em) Palevino, Marjorie Poor, Ron Romanowski, Ivan A. Salazar M., Sabrina Spenser Smith, Jessica Smithies, Hanako Teranishi, and Evan Woelk Balzer.
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The deepening climate crisis is making all kinds of work harder, more dangerous and more unpredictable — or if it hasn’t yet, it will soon enough. And all kinds of workers have something to say about it. I’ll Get Right On It is a poetry anthology about making a living and carrying on despite smoky air, fires, climate grief, species loss and increased precarity. Connecting the dots between labour and environment, this anthology invites us to think and feel through the many ways climate change transforms our working lives.
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Jamie Paris is a mixed-race (Black, Métis, and Scottish) early modern literature and culture scholar. He is an Instructor II in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba, and an assistant editor for Early Theatre. His scholarship on early modern literature focuses on whiteness and premodern critical race studies. He has published with The Sundial, Public Humanities, Early Theatre, the Journal for Early Modern Culture, Renaissance and Reformation, Canadian Literature and Digital Studies, and he has a book, entitled Clothed Villainy, forthcoming with the Strode Series at the University of Alabama Press.
Melanie Dennis Unrau (she/her/settler) is a poet, editor, scholar, and climate organizer from Treaty One territory and Métis homeland in Winnipeg. She is the author of The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen’s UP), Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (The Muses’ Company), and Goose (Assembly Press).