

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Eve Joseph (Dismantling) & Patrick Friesen (Sightings) Dual Book Launch
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Join poets Eve Joseph and Patrick Friesen for the Winnipeg launch of their new poetry collections: Dismantling (Anvil Press) and Sightings (CMU Press). Featuring readings and a conversation hosted by Sarah Ens, followed by a book signing.

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781772142563/eve-joseph/dismantling

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781987986297/patrick-friesen/sightings

This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/cFVpfDlfm_g
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In Eve Joseph's latest book, Dismantling, the poet is occupied with the idea of poetic imagination and how that often elusive thing can transform the mundane into the mysterious. As the title suggests, sometimes the act of taking something apart and building again from scratch allows a poem to find its true form. Joseph's poems are about language; how lonely it is until time enters the poem and places it where it is meant to be.

The poems in Patrick Friesen’s latest collection, Sightings, move between the visible and invisible, between the contradictions of human history and the immediacy of a complex present. These poems rely on the kind of knowledge that comes from experience: tremors and fragments riding on the movement of thinking. The distance from Friesen’s first book, published fifty years ago, to this one, speaks to what it means to have known the world through poetry.

Eve Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees First Nations. Her first two books of poetry, The Startled Heart (Oolichan) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick), were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. In the Slender Margin (HarperCollins) won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Quarrels (Anvil) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the ReLit Award and won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Patrick Friesen is the author of nearly twenty collections of poetry, including the influential The Shunning (adapted as a play and dance work) and Blasphemer’s Wheel (winner of the Manitoba Book of the Year Award, runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award). A Broken Bowl was shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. With co-translator Per Brask, he was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2016, for Frayed Opus for Strings &amp; Wind Instruments by Danish author Ulrikka Gernes. He lives with his wife, Eve Joseph, in Victoria.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Winnipeg
- **state**: MB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: McNally Robinson Booksellers
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- **long**: -97.165596350487
- **full address**: McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** McNally Robinson Booksellers, 1120 Grant Avenue,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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