"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.
- 98 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- THE HUGH MACLENNAN POETRY SERIES
- Copyright
- APOCRYPHA
- FOSSIL RECORD
- LAPSARIAN
- PORT AU PORT
- WILD LUPINS
- TUCKAMORE
- AFTER THE WRECK
- EASTER EGG
- WAKE
- POLAROID, CA. 1974
- THE END WENT LIKE THIS
- TAKING LEAVE
- THE CROSSING
- BARACHOIS
- FAWN
- CAPLIN
- SLUB
- CUL-DE-SAC
- SCRAP OF CODLAND HISTORY
- DAD
- RECIPE FOR POACHED COD
- GLUTTONY
- LAST SUPPER
- MY MOTHER EATS BAKEAPPLES
- DAMSONS
- J ELLY FISH
- JUNE BUGS
- NATIVITY SCENE
- THE ARCHES
- SOME SHOCK
- GUY FAWKES NIGHT
- WHAT THE AMERICANS LEFT
- OLD RUNWAY
- DUMPED
- GOON
- SEA PUNKS
- WIRELESS ON SIGNAL HILL
- REPLY TO A FOOTNOTE
- GUTENBERG’S GRAVE
- HISTORY OF WRITING
- THE PROSTHETIST
- SCREEN-SCRAWLING
- ICU
- THE STARRY NIGHT
- THE WATER ROOMS
- FISHING
- A LOVELY GUTTING
- SITTING
- STOCK WELL STATION
- NOT PARIS
- GREAT BLUE HERON
- FOG
- SURGE
- PARKER’S COVE
- DRIVE-BY DAR WINISM
- WALKING
- VAGABOND
- CERTAINTY
- TWIGS
- DOWN THE BEACH
- BROKEN OFF INDIAN HEAD
- STILL BORN
- MISBEGOTTEN
- GRAVESIDE
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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