Ditching the Guff is a work of contemplation and celebration. It is a collection of memories and experiences, skilfully juxtaposed to contrast and elaborate, to jolt and explain. It is the work of a mature poet who presents a chronology of her life with humour, wisdom, sympathy, and acceptance. There is no attempt to untangle the confusion of lived experience: it is presented as it is known, in all its glorious, inexplicable, unlikely disarray.