Siolence
Subtitle: poets on women, violence & silence
By: edited by Susan McMaster ; art work by Marie Elyse St. George and Heather Spears.
Contributors: McMaster, Susan, 1950-; League of Canadian Poets. Feminist Caucus.
Publisher: Quarry Women's Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Kingston, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Canadian literature -- 20th century.; Abused women -- Literary collections.; Feminism and literature -- Canada.; Feminism -- Literary collections.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Siolence is a word coined by Penn Kemp to encapsulate the blending that so often occurs between violence and the silence enabling it.

For more than a decade, a group of feminist writers in the League of Canadian Poets, self-dubbed the Feminist Caucus, have been meeting to wrestle with issues of language and gender, to share revelations and convictions and poems, and to reaffirm their place in the community of people who spend much of their lives working to end the violence of language and the silencing of voices that corrupt our society.

Siolence is an anthology of the best position papers, manifestos, rants, essays, and poems written on women, violence, and silence during one of the most interesting eras in the history of feminism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"The essays ... are drawn from the panels and presentations of the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets between 1982 and 1995"--T.p. verso.