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Kit Dobson & Tanis MacDonald Book Launch

Join Kit Dobson and Tanis MacDonald for the launch of their Wolsak & Wynn books, Field Notes on the Art of Listening and Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female.

Dobson and MacDonald will be joined by Aubrey Jean Hanson, reading from her book Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers (WLUP, 2020).

Also featured is Ken Wilson, who won the 2022 City of Regina Writing Award.

Written in brief, elegant sections, Field Notes on Listening starts at Dobson’s kitchen table, a family heirloom, and wends through time and space, looking at his family’s lost farm, the slow violence of climate change, loss of habitat, the tensions of living in late-stage capitalism.

In this wide-ranging collection of essays Tanis MacDonald walks the reader down many paths, pointing out the sights, exclaiming over birds, sharing stories and asking questions about just who gets to walk freely through our cities, parks and wilderness.

Kit Dobson lives and works in Calgary / Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. His previous books include Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada and he is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Tanis MacDonald is an essayist, poet, professor and free-range literary animal. She is the host of the podcast Watershed Writers, and the author of Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City. She identifies as a bad birder, and lives near Ose’kowáhne in southwestern Ontario as a grateful guest on traditional Haudenosaunee territory.

Aubrey Jean Hanson is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta and an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education. Her ancestry extends to Métis, German, Icelandic, French, and Scottish roots.

Ken Wilson lives on Treaty 4 territory in oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan), where he teaches English at the University of Regina. His creative nonfiction essay “Populus” was shortlisted for The Malahat Review’s 2021 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize. His current writing project is a book-length manuscript on walking.

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