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Melanie Dennis Unrau
We also would like to introduce you to grocery list by Melanie Dennis Unrau, a hand-traced long poem built from a grocery list found in the Sidney Clarke Ells fonds (yes, that tar sands guy). Letters are reorganized, archives are queered, and domestic ephemera becomes a haunting critique of extraction, inheritance, and the stories we’re told about progress.
About the Author:
Melanie Dennis Unrau is a white-settler poet, editor, scholar, parent, and climate organizer from Treaty One territory and Métis homeland in Winnipeg. She is the author of the poetry collections Goose (Assembly, 2025) and Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (The Muses’ Company, 2013), and the literary study The Rough Poets: Reading Oil-Worker Poetry (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024). She co-edited the poetry anthology I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis (Roseway, 2025).
