Resistance

This poetry collection from 82 writers across the globe resists patriarchal systems of power and underscores the power of survivors’ voices as part of an international movement for justice.

Goyette Sue :

Sue Goyette is the award-winning author of six books of poems and a novel. Now Halifax’s eighth poet laureate, she was nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award for her collection Ocean, which won several other prizes, including the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Bliss Carman, the Earle Birney, the Pat Lowther, and the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. She lives in Halifax and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University.

“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

"No amount of rage or resistance can erase inflicted trauma, and speaking about assault will not entirely dismantle structures perpetuating sexual violence. However, in its closing poems, the anthology offers hope in the form of community."—Herizons

“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