A Lovely Gutting: Gender and Wealth in English Canada, 1860-1930

Robin Durnford

Feb. 2012 · Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series Buch 24 · McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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"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.

Autoren-Profil

Robin Durnford has published poetry and prose in several Canadian literary magazines, including The Antigonish Review, Grain, Vallum, The Nashwaak Review, and CV2. This is her first collection of poetry.