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The following is excerpted from Quill & Quire's review of A Lovely Gutting by Robin Durnford.
Robin Durnford’s debut collection guts the praise-song quality of nature poetry’s more traditional iterations in favour of a voice that is unafraid of tackling torment, loss, and the ebb and flow of nature’s sublimity. The poet presents the earth as simultaneously beautiful and damned: uncanny Newfoundland landscapes, ghosts, and rotting wrecks appear among attempts to salvage beauty from debris. “[F]rom this sea I am fished, / gutted and stripped, / bled and bound, / on your ship I sail, / or go down”, Durnford writes in the title poem. We follow the poet to “the worn beaches of the peninsula / stuffed with fossilized crabs / rotting wrecks”, where “black crows and cats, hungry dogs / forage among rusty kettles”.
In these poems, the sea carries history – or, perhaps more accurately, carries us through our various histories, where memory mixes with desire.
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