Extinction Dance

EXTINCTION Dance

A FILM BY BRIAN D. JOHNSON

The author of 11 volumes of poetry and five non-fiction books, Dewdney is one of Canada’s most acclaimed writers, and a five-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award.

But that does not begin to cover it. His otherworldly way of seeing things goes beyond the literary. Whether investigating the architecture of wind or vampire parrots that prey on sheep, he brings a philosopher’s mind, a scientist’s thirst, and a a poet’s eye to electrons and lizards, his subject. Exploring the anatomy of fossils and reefs, his language eroticizes science. And his body of work covers a narrative arc that ziplines across a half a billion years of the planet’s history, from the Paleozoic Era to the AI horizon of a transhuman future.

As a major poet in Ondaatje, Margaretdeep thinker with the CanLit pantheon, Dewdney ranks alongside Michael Atwood, Al Purdy, Dennis Lee a flair for aphorism, he has and Leonard Cohen. As a been compared to such visionaries as Aldous Huxley, Roland Barthes, Marshall McLuhan Cronenberg. Yet, in that oh-so-Canadian way, fame has eluded him.

Chris Dewdney is a national treasure hiding in plain sight—and a ripe subject for a film.