Lovely Gutting

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.

"Part homage to, part radical disjuncture from the Romantic tradition, A Lovely Gutting unsettles the notion that what no longer remains cannot be revisited, will not emerge from the darkness in 'a delicate splash of sea-light.' Durnford is an important and talented new voice in Canadian poetry, and this collection offers powerful renderings of the wastelands we inhabit and make homes out of." Quill & Quire "An economy of language and rhythms that are blunt and consistent, as if her words were beaten out on a drum, establish Durnford's credentials as a nature poet of considerable scope." Susan Walker, The Malahat Review "[Robin] write[s] poetry with such strong lyricism and beauty of phraseology that you feel it hum within you as you read it. Each word is chosen carefully, knowingly, the way a painter might choose a brushstroke, but none of them are the kinds of three-ce