Sue Goyette

Sue Goyette has published a novel and ten books of poems, including The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl, Penelope, Monoculture and Ocean (for which she was awarded the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award). 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 has won several national awards including the Pat Lowther Award, the Bliss Carman Award, and the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry. She lives in Halifax (K’jipuktuk) where she teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University.



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Anthesis: A Memoir
Sue Goyette

2020 / Poetry / $19.95
9781554472109 / Trade paper / 80 pp


This work of poetry reclaims both a childhood trauma and a fictionalized telling of that experience. Retrospectively gleaning bits from an autobiographical novel published early in her career, Sue Goyette’s process of “inverted redaction” extracts emotive words and images and gathers them into a new and freer account. Paired with her mythopoetic use of language, this technique of clipping and rearranging previously composed words escapes the confines of conventional narrative, embracing poetry’s adeptness at preserving expansive truths in the careful ordering of small particulars.



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Other Books by this Author

Future Howl
Sue Goyette

2025 / Canadian Poetry / $24.95 CAN
9781554472796 / Trade paper / 128 pp
Monoculture
Sue Goyette

2022 / Canadian Poetry / $24.95 CAN
9781554472376 / Trade paper / 176 pp
Solstice 2020: An Archive
Sue Goyette

2021 / Canadian Poetry / $18.95 CAN
9781554472246 / Trade paper / 48 pp
Penelope
Sue Goyette

2017 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 CAN
9781554471744 / Trade paper / 96 pp
The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl
Sue Goyette

2015 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN
9781554471461 / Trade paper / 64 pp
Ocean
Sue Goyette

2013 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN
9781554471225 / Trade paper / 80 pp

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