FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Turnstone Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dennis Cooley’s most long-standing, and most recent long poem, love in a dry land, to be released late 2024 or early 2025.
In love in a dry land Dennis Cooley continues his lifelong fascination with Sinclair Ross' As for Me and My House. Shaped by Cooley's expert hands, this long poem builds upon the foundations of one of Canlit's most recognizable homes.
Dennis Cooley is a Canadian writer of poetry and criticism and a vital figure in the evolution of the prairie long poem. Recipient of the 2015 League of Canadian Poets’ Life Membership Award and the 2013 Manitoba Writers’ Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, Dennis Cooley has been a key figure in Canadian poetry, and in particular, Winnipeg’s literary community for over 30 years. He has written extensively on Canadian literature, published over 20 books of poetry, and edited numerous others. For years a CanLit professor at the University of Manitoba, Dennis Cooley, now retired, lives and writes in Winnipeg.
Established in 1976, Turnstone Press publishes some of the most exciting and innovative poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in Canada. In 1998, Turnstone Press launched its genre imprint, Ravenstone, publishing mysteries, thrillers, cli-fi, and speculative fiction.
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