The pieces that make up Anne Le Dressay’s second poetry collection, Old Winter, are urban poems grounded in the rural past. Understated, direct, ironic, quietly humorous, they reveal a love of the particular, of small daily things which feel more and more fragile in a world overshadowed by big threats. Descriptive or narrative, focussing on the inner world of mind and spirit or the ‘real world’ outside the narrator, these poems celebrate in close and vivid detail the small moments of ordinary life. They are poems of wonder, transformation, and resurrection.
Anne Le Dressay grew up in Manitoba, first on a farm near Virden and then on an acreage outside Lorette. She has lived for extended periods in Winnipeg, Ottawa, and Edmonton (in that order). She taught English and Creative Writing for ten years in Alberta. She is now in Ottawa for the seond time, working for the feds. She has been published sporadically since the 1970s. She has one previous trade book, Sleep is a Country (Harbinger, 1997) and two chapbooks, This Body That I Live In (Turnstone, 1979) and Woman Dreams (above/ground, 1998). She was also featured in the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets (Chaudiere Books, 2006).
Winnipeg launch: Monday, November 12 at Mcnally Robinsons booksellers, Grant Park, 1120 Grant Avenue, Grant Park Mall at 7pm. rachelb@grant.mcnallyrobinson.ca
Ottawa launch: Thursday, November 22 at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeebar, 1242 Wellington Street West (at Holland), 7:30pm. The evening will open with readings by Ottawa writers Amanda Earl and Clare Latremouille. info@collected-works.com
For information on this event or on the title, contact the publisher, rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca
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