{"product_id":"a-lovely-gutting","title":"A Lovely Gutting","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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481679733109,"sku":"9780773539846","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780773539846.jpg?v=1786089968","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/a-lovely-gutting","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}