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Future Howl

By (author): Sue Goyette

Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time.

AUTHOR

Sue Goyette

Sue Goyette’s first two collections, The True Names of Birds and Undone, were nominated for the Governor General’s, Lowther, and Lampert Awards, the Globe 100 and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Her novel, Lures (HarperCollins), was short-listed for the Thomas Head Raddall Award. A selection from outskirts won a 2008 CBC Literary Award. She teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University.


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Sue Goyette’s poem Future Howl plots a fulsome radius of the experience of trauma and survival, one that encompasses much about living in the aftermath that skirts straightforward description and yet works in the frequency of courage and joy. Propelled by Goyette’s declarative voice, sense of humour and side-slipping imagery, each page of the poem is “a microdose of ars poetica” infused with intertextual and transformative guidance from the painter Bob Ross, the live-cam company of a pair of endangered red wolves, and a private-to-public reckoning that is grounded in this singular time.



Future Howl presents a masterclass of the long poem as a work on relentless cusp—every page anticipating tomorrow, then tomorrow, then tomorrow. —Jamie Kitts, Miramichi Reader

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Dimensions:

128 Pages
8.5in * 5.75in * 0.4in
100gr

Published:

May 01, 2025

City of Publication:

Sackville

Country of Publication:

CA

ISBN:

9781554472796

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

Language:

eng

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