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Gutted is an emotional travelogue…moving from a semi-rural girlhood to boisterous contemporary life, love, and heartbreak in downtown Toronto…Most of Christie’s poems benefit from an almost brutal frankness. Christie writes with a plainspoken directness, in largely unadorned free verse that’s nonetheless capable of jarring the reader with sudden, unexpected metaphor and imaginative leaps…The poems here are thematically strong…Throughout the book, Christie deftly captures the violence and victims of contemporary urban life with a cutting verisimilitude and keen familiarity…A confident and winning collection that will make a genuine connection with its readers…This is the sort of poetry that will actually be read, rather than admired from afar.
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