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

Future Howl

Published: 05/01/2025
128 pages
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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.

“Oh my god, this is a perfect book.” These were the words I said to my friend as we were sitting in a common area, working and reading silently together in rare, quiet company. I’d just finished reading Sue Goyette’s Future Howl. It’s been about a month since then, and I have not changed my mind. Future Howl is everything we’re holding in: our personal trauma, nostalgia and recovery, bearing witness to global atrocity, and every wish for the good and decent.

—Jamie Kitts, Miramichi Reader