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Join David Yerex Williamson in launching his poetry collection Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones.The Manitoba Writers’ Guild is pleased to present the spring 2024 series of our Book Launch program for Guild members with a poetry collection by David Yerex Williamson.
Sunday, May 11, 2024
2:00 to 3:30 PM
Artspace Boardroom
100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, MB
Coffee and light snacks will be served.
Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event.
$24.95 per copy; cash or e-transfer.
Launches are a great opportunity to meet your artistic colleagues. We hope many Guild members and other Manitoban authors will support their fellow writers by coming to one or more of these launches. Bring your friends and family. Launches are open to the public.
Content warning: The Guild is sensitive to the fact that members of a launch audience will respond differently to literary material. The Guild provides a comfortable “safe place” in the lounge, with water and refreshments, for any person or persons upset by anything read or said for all book launches.
About David Yerex Williamson’s
Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones
(AT Bay Press)
ISBN 978-1-988168-60-9
The weight of history lies on the spine of memory. That heft and delicate balance are palpable in these rich poems that echo with grief, longing, and observed beauty. From the silence and complexity of the northern wilderness to the vast prairie landscapes stretching across the province, Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones explores self, ancestry, and community through poems which dwell on the page with a satisfying density of imagery. Combining careful observation with sensitive reflection, this work examines the poet’s memory and experience as a father, son, husband, and descendent of European settlers married into an Indigenous family living in Northern Manitoba.
David Yerex Williamson:
DAVID YEREX WILLIAMSON is an instructor and poet living in northern Manitoba on the banks of the Nelson River on Treaty 5 Territory of the Kinasao Sipi Cree Nation (Norway House). His recent works have appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, Prairie Journal of Literature, Heartwood, a League of Canadian Poets anthology in honour of our relationship with trees, and Sweet Water, by Caitlyn Press, an anthology about water sheds. He is also the co-founder of the Language Arts Festival for University College of the North, an annual writing and performing arts festival that introduces high school students from across the north to professional story-makers. His debut collection of poetry, Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones, was published by At Bay Press and nominated for a 2023 Manitoba Book Award. When not teaching, writing or drawing, David shovels snow, cuts wood and chases his dogs along the historic river.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Artspace, 100 Arthur St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3, Canada,Winnipeg, Manitoba