Melanie Dennis Unrau Book Launch (Goose)

Name: Melanie Dennis Unrau Book Launch (Goose)
Start: 2025-10-11T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-11T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Melanie Dennis Unrau for the launch of her new poetry collection Goose (Assembly Press), featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Ariel Gordon followed by a book signing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781998336210/melanie-dennis-unrau/goose
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/-Y-OHA5Hqfc
Goose is a collection of hand-traced visual poems made using found text and images from the 1938 and 1956 editions of Northland Trails, a book of self-illustrated short stories, poems, and essays about the Athabasca region authored by “father of the tar sands” S. C. Ells (1878–1971). Goose takes Ells’s early work surveying, mining, and separating bituminous sand, along with his colonial, racist, and sexist attitudes and aesthetics, as the starting point for an inventive and biting critique of the oil-sands industry and our petromodern energy system.
At turns cheeky, sharp-witted, and grave, Goose inverts found-poetry erasure and procedural techniques to explore themes of extraction and the relationship between humans, nonhumans, and the land to enact irreverent, deconstructive literary criticism.
Melanie Dennis Unrau is a poet, editor, scholar, and climate organizer of mixed European ancestry from Winnipeg, traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, and Dene peoples and the homeland of the Red River Métis. She is the author of the literary study The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen’s UP) and the poetry collection Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (The Muses’ Company). A former editor of The Goose journal and Geez magazine, Melanie also co-edited I’ll Get Right on It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis (Fernwood).