Ken Wilson Book Launch

Join Ken Wilson for the Saskatoon launch of his book Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road (University of Regina Press).

This event will be held in the Travel Alcove and as a simultaneous YouTube livestream.

Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road recounts Ken Wilson’s singular experience of walking alongside the decidedly pedestrian-unfriendly Regina Bypass, all while situating the highway within the ongoing history of settler colonialism in Saskatchewan. Through a series of ambitious and unconventional walks, Wilson offers a new perspective on these heavily travelled yet untrodden spaces in a region dominated by industrial agriculture and high-speed transportation and wonders whether it’s possible to connect with the land through walking—even on the edge of the freeway.

Ken Wilson is a settler-descendant who grew up in the Haldimand Tract in southwestern Ontario. He lives on Treaty 4 territory in oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan), where he is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Regina. His poetry and creative-nonfiction have been published in The Goose and Queen’s Quarterly. Walking the Bypass: Notes on Place from the Side of the Road is his first book; its manuscript won the 2022 City of Regina Writing Award. His second, Walking Well, is slated to appear in 2026.

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