A Lovely Gutting : Volume 24 Paperback / softback
by Robin Durnford
Part of the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
"from this sea I am fished, / gutted and stripped, / bled and bound, / on your ship I sail, / or go down." A Lovely Gutting echoes with the music of traditional nature poetry, but its romantic style is ripped by rawness.
These poems - enraged and erotic, tormented and tender - swirl around the pain of personal loss, ebbing and surging like the North Atlantic. Durnford pictures a Newfoundland not found in postcards.
Her verse roams an island only half-wild, a ramshackle world of crumbling outports and post-industrial landscapes. In one town, the site of a former US Air Force base, stands a crumbling theatre of "piss-stained crushed velvet seats," the ghost of Mae West still lingering.
The ocean no longer spits up cod but the view is strangely sublime. A startling collection from a talented new voice in Canadian poetry, A Lovely Gutting splits open the guts of grief.
It is an unflinching meditation on the loss of a culture and a father and on the struggle to preserve and honour what remains.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:98 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2012
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- ISBN:9780773539846
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:98 pages
- Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780773539846
