Please join Dennis Cooley in conversation with nathan dueck as we celebrate the launch of two collections: The Bestiary and cold press moon (Turnstone Press) at this event, featuring a conversation hosted by nathan dueck.

Registration is required to directly participate in the Zoom webinar.

The event will be simultaneously streamed on YouTube and available for viewing thereafter.

In The Bestiary Dennis Cooley conducts a chorus of “clucks & barks & muffled cries” to unconstrained cacophony. Amid hushed and howling moments, the natural bends uncanny while the extraordinary roots into the organic under Cooley’s careful eye.

Like the best and most magical of fairy tales, cold press moon catches our anxieties and hopes, glimmers with mischief and mystery, and gloms on to something like truth. Romantic and irreverent, playful and profound, these poems work like spells to wake the vital heart.

Recipient of the League of Canadian Poets’ Life Membership Award and the Manitoba Writers’ Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, Dennis Cooley has been a key figure in Winnipeg’s literary community for over 30 years. For years a professor at the University of Manitoba, Dennis Cooley, now retired, lives and writes in Winnipeg.

nathan dueck enrolled in a course that Dennis Cooley taught at the University of Manitoba 17 years ago. He doesn’t mean to brag, but he got a pretty good grade. A pretty good grade. No way to get A better grade, really. No, real A. Anyway, nathan is the author of king’s(mère) (Turnstone Press) and he’ll (Pedlar Press). His most recent book of poetry, A Very Special Episode, was published by Buckrider Books in 2019.

• Thursday, October 22, 2020 – Thursday, October 22, 2020
• 7:00pm – 8:00pm
• McNally Robinson Booksellers, Online via Zoom
• Winnipeg, Manitoba