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Writers across the globe speak out against sexual assault and abuse in this powerful new poetry anthology, edited by Sue Goyette. These collected poems from writers across the globe declare one common theme: resistance. By exploring sexual assault and violence in their work, each writer resists the patriarchal systems of power that continue to support a misogynist justice system that supports abusers. In doing so, they reclaim their power and their voice. Created as a response to the Jian Ghomeshi case, writers including Joan Crate, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, and Beth Goobie are, as editor Sue Goyette explains, a "multitude, resisting." The collection could not be more timely. The work adds a new layer to the ever-growing #MeToo movement. Resistance underscores the validity of all women's experiences, and the importance of dignifying such experiences in voice, however that may sound. Because once survivors speak out and disrupt their pain, there is no telling what else they can do.
Contents
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 Lévesque
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 Schönmaier
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'Abbé
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
Ceó Ruaírc
One
Denise Leduc
To Believe
Kim Stobbe
Unite
Kim Payne
Acknowledgements
Resources for Survivors of Assault
Contributors
