“NO, SUFFER HERE” by Chimwemwe Undi

May 9, 2025

Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “NO, SUFFER HERE” by Chimwemwe Undi, from Scientific Marvel (House of Anansi Press, 2024), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.

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NO, SUFFER HERE

By Chimwemwe Undi

(from Baker v Canada (Minister of Immigration & Citizenship), [1999] 2 SCR 817 at para 5)

An erasure poem, whose base text is from Baker v Canada (Minister of Immigration & Citizenship), 1992 2 SCR 817 at para 5. The remaining text is variations on the words no, suffer, and here

Copyright © Chimwemwe Undi

From Scientific Marvel (House of Anansi Press, 2024), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Chimwemwe Undi is a poet, editor and lawyer living and writing on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her debut collection, Scientific Marvel, won the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award. She is Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate for 2025 and 2026.

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