Resistance

Sue Goyette lives in Halifax and has published five books of poems and a novel. Her most recent collection, Penelope , was published by Gaspereau Press in 2017. She's been nominated for several awards including the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award. She has won the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Bliss Carman, the Earle Birney, the Pat Lowther, the J.M. Abraham Poetry Awards, the Relit Award, and the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection Ocean . Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University.

Foreword Sue Goyette INNOCENCE/EXPOSURE the telling Natalie Baker No Emergency Tara Borin little monster Linda M. Crate Zipper Catherine Graham Arcadia gillian harding-russell For Lovetta, With Sorrow Laurie Mackie Black Plums Catherine Greenwood In the Scheme of Things Raye Hendrickson Falling Off a Ladder Louisa Howerow Driving Test Anne Levesque 649 Sun Row Kelly Nickie Memory, re-sequenced Kim Mannix Lessons in Womanhood Dana Morenstein Girls Shouldn't Yanick Cadieux Sun, Moon and Thalia Kristie Betts Letter She Looks for Lions Bev Brenna Sixteen Eleonore Schoenmaier Teenager Robbed Danielle Wong The Rape of Leda Joan Crate Normalized Jesse Holth Try Me Jo Jefferson Six Minutes of Spring Shannon Kernaghan The Elephant Marion Mutala ENDURANCE/PERSISTENCE Night Class Taryn Hubbard a death so close Rosemary Anderson The Next Day Suzanne Wood A Victim Carol Alexander Brain Washing Ronnie R. Brown I don't like to tell people I was raped Elizabeth Johnston The Morning After Samantha Fitzpatrick Birdman Byrna Barclay Chance Encounter in the Uranium City Hotel Marion Beck I Ache Maroula Blades A Metaphor Jill M. Talbot Solitary Marina Nemat Pulp Non-fiction Janis Butler Holm Woods Wolf Girl v Cornelia HooglandP.O.ed Halli Lilburn A good thing to know Myrna Garanis "What we did not know in 1972. What has changed." Penn Kemp Honour Killing: A Glosa Troni Y. Grande RAGE/RESISTANCE An Army of Staring Women Susie Berg Fuck Ghomeshi Lori Hanson Five Parts Rape Poem One Part Self-Care Kyla Jamieson The power in a name Heather Read A consideration of the bus driver dee Hobsbawn-Smith The Maid and the Wolf Ashley-Elizabeth Best The Rape of Lucia Keith Inman Pinned, Mounted Amber Moore Chrysalis Lucie Kavanagh Claiming My Brother's Body Keir LXVIII Sonnet L'Abbe When you looked at me did you see me? Ellie Rose Langston abuse victim Marianne Jones Not even trees should grow there Emma Lee The No Variations Katherine Lawrence Name Me After a Fish Leah MacLean-Evans The Way the Crocodile Taught Me Katrina Naomi Molly Polly Johnson Not Guilty Donna J.A. Olson Autumn in the East, the Pilot Jami Macarty The Man Who Studied Love Bruce Rice Yes, Those Were Crimes of Violence Marshall L. Wreaths Amy Sonoun Years Too Late Ed Woods SURVIVAL/RECOVERY monarch Beth Goobie Annabelle Declan Kent Novena 2 Bridget Keating Once Judith Krause Dinner Heather Bauchop Love and Nintendo Ruth Daniell On sleepless nights . . . Anonymous Calcium Carbonate Emily MacKinnon Elements Ceo Ruairc One Denise Leduc To Believe Kim Stobbe Unite Kim Payne Acknowledgements Resources for Survivors of Assault Contributors

"The poems in Resistance do more than resist: they testify and bear witness, grieve and lament, howl and spark A deeply moving and urgently necessary collection." Lisa Richter , author of Closer to Where We Began "A monument to defiance against a terrible, pervasive darkness, demanding our attention and action." Nisha Patel , author of Limited Success " Resistance claims poetry is essential to processing pain . . . . and these voices can seek to claim safety back through 'resilience and resistance.'" Micheline Maylor , author of Little Wildheart "Seventy-eight soul-shattering voices that refuse to be silenced or ashamed. Resistance provides the megaphone." Jennifer Musial , New Jersey City University "Injustice concerning sexual assault cannot be underestimated: Resistance should be required reading for all Canadian legislators." Patricia Fell , Artistic Director, Windsor Feminist Theatre