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Join The Land and Labour Poetry Collective members Jamie Paris and Melanie Dennis Unrau as they celebrate the launch of I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis. Featuring poetry readings from contributors
This launch will be present as part of THIN AIR 2025 Winnipeg’s annual fall celebration of books and writing. This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
The deepening climate crisis is making all kinds of work harder, more dangerous and more unpredictable — or if it hasn’t yet, it will soon enough. And all kinds of workers have something to say about it. I’ll Get Right On It is a poetry anthology about making a living and carrying on despite smoky air, fires, climate grief, species loss and increased precarity. Connecting the dots between labour and environment, this anthology invites us to think and feel through the many ways climate change transforms our working lives.
Jamie Paris is a mixed-race (Black, Métis, and Scottish) early modern literature and culture scholar. He is an Instructor II in the Department of English, Theatre, Film, and Media at the University of Manitoba, and an assistant editor for Early Theatre. His scholarship on early modern literature focuses on whiteness and premodern critical race studies. He has published with The Sundial, Public Humanities, Early Theatre, the Journal for Early Modern Culture, Renaissance and Reformation, Canadian Literature and Digital Studies, and he has a book, entitled Clothed Villainy, forthcoming with the Strode Series at the University of Alabama Press.
Melanie Dennis Unrau (she/her/settler) is a poet, editor, scholar, and climate organizer from Treaty One territory and Métis homeland in Winnipeg. She is the author of The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry, Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, and Goose.
