Her Steeth Are Stones

by Judy Gaudet

Each of Judy Gaudet's poems is a path to somewhere resonant, redolent of memories and anticipations both bittersweet and beautiful. She traces the paths the mind and body take purposefully as well as those they happen upon by chance or consequence. The poems light on home and history, travel afar, return again. They are marked by the toughness of wholly looking and experiencing and are leavened by wry humour and true gratitude for the beauty and magic that touch the earth's days -- and our human ones.
"Within the pages of Judy Gaudet's first full collection are fresh insights into the poet's PEI: the natural world, family, ancestors, and friends. This is a large book."

-- Joseph Sherman, author of
Worried Into Being: An Unfinished Alphabet

"This is the genuine article. A fresh and original voice unabashed in its honest reactions to the world as she sees it and uncompromising in her demands upon it. Witty and perceptive, these poems are shaped with large hands, a hungry heart, and an astonishing set of eyes."

-- Hugh MacDonald, author of
Cold Against the Heart

About the Author

A native of Prince Edward Island, Judy Gaudet works as a teacher and librarian in Charlottetown. Her poems have appeared in blueSHIFT, The Gaspereau Review, and ContemporaryVerse2; anthologized in The Poets of Prince Edward Island, Landmarks, and A Bountiful Harvest; and broadcast on CBC Radio's Live Poets Society.
Her Teeth Are Stones is her first full-length poetry book, following her chapbook Poems, you say, published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks. The mother of three grown daughters, she lives in Belfast, PEI, with her partner, David Helwig.