How often do you have the chance to hear Dracula's side of the story? Manitoba poet Dennis Cooley offers you just that in his recent book with the wickedly punning title, Seeing Red. He'll be reading from it at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Sept. 29.
Cooley has been a leading voice in prairie literature since the 1980s as a poet, teacher, critic and editor. His critical volume, The Vernacular Muse (1987) has influenced a generation of prairie poets, and his anthologies, Replacing (1980), Draft (1981) and Inscriptions (1992) have brought their work to light. His recent volumes include Sunfall; Selected and New Poems (1996), Seeing Red (2003) and the forthcoming The Bentleys, bringing to life the characters of Philip and Mrs. Bentley from Sinclair Ross' classic novel As For Me and My House.
Cooley's original and irreverent imagination will entertain as well as enlighten at the Arts Centre at 8 p.m. Admission is free, courtesy of the Canada Council and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council.
