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Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement

Melanie Dennis Unrau

Melanie Dennis Unrau is a poet of mixed European ancestry living on Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene territory and the homeland of the Red River Métis in Winnipeg. A Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in geography/environmental studies and English at the University of Regina, she is the author of the literary study The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024), the chapbook The Goose (above/ground, 2023), and the poetry collection Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (The Muses’ Company, 2013). Her new poetry collection, “Goose,” is forthcoming with Assembly Press. Melanie co-edited Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat (Palgrave, 2014) and the “Poetics and Extraction” issue of Canadian Literature (2022); she edited an issue of G U E S T: a journal of guest editors on “Petropoetics” in 2021. Past work includes her roles as an editor of The Goose journal and Geez magazine, a member of the Decolonial Cities Collective, and a member of the Artist Mothers Collective at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art. Current projects include the “Workers of the Warming World Unite!” anthology of climate-related work poetry with Fernwood Publishing and climate-justice organizing with the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition.

New Book – The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry

November 27, 2024December 27, 20248 minute readby Melanie Dennis Unrau

Second Edition: Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction

November 24, 2022May 10, 20231 minute readby Melanie Dennis Unrau

Online Event – Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction

October 21, 2022May 10, 20231 minute readby Melanie Dennis Unrau
Network in Canadian History and Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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