Description
Every morning for the first 21 days of the locked-down and uncertain month of December 2020, Sue Goyette wrote a new poem to be published in Halifax’s The Coast that afternoon. Goyette’s skilful use of poetry’s artful unrulinessof its facility for reconciling our emotional and imaginative lives with occurrences in the everyday worldresults in poems that illuminate a dark moment, contributing to “the work of imagining a way forward so there’s a bowl for everyone.”
About the author
Sue Goyette has published nine books of poems and a novel. Her collections include The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, Penelope and Ocean (for which she was awarded the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2021), The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books, 2013). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and German and has been featured in films, subways, buses, spraypainted on a sidewalk and tattooed. She was nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several national awards including the Pat Lowther Award, the Bliss Carman Award, and the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry. She is the Artist in Residence in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba and Poet Laureate for Halifax Regional Municipality. She lives in Halifax (K'jipuktuk) where she teaches in the creative writing at Dalhousie University.
Other titles by
A Different Species of Breathing
The Poetry of Sue Goyette
Monoculture
Resistance
Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo
Anthesis
A Memoir
Penelope
The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology
A Selection of the Shortlist
The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013
Ocean
