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Join E. McGregor for the launch of her debut poetry collection What Fills Your House Like Smoke (Thistledown Press) featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Jennifer Still.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781771872522/e-mcgregor/what-fills-your-house-like-smoke
The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/fs8vMi3wh9w
In this debut poetry collection, E. McGregor combines the lore of family history with personal memory, vividly parsing patterns of inheritance, particularly through the maternal line.
What Fills Your House Like Smoke begins and ends at the deathbed of the writer’s Métis grandmother. In between, McGregor composes an incomplete and wildly imaginative biography of her grandmother, interrogated by family photographs, stories, and the scant paper trail she left behind. As these poems unfold, they move us toward an understanding of maternal inheritance, shifting identities, forgiveness, and finally love.
E. McGregor is a Euro-Settler/Métis writer currently living in Winnipeg. Her poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines including Room, The Dalhousie Review, CV2, The Fiddlehead, and others. She obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia in 2022.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada