Lily Fairchild follows the life of a pioneer woman, born in the backwoods of Lambton County in 1840, throughout her long life, ending in 2019. During that time, she is witness to historical events that impinge on her life: the Underground Railroad, the coming of the railways, the discovery of oil, the Fenian raids, the first and second Riel Rebellions, the construction of the tunnel under the St Clair River, the Great War, and the flu pandemic of 1919. Lily struggles against the f...

Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.

Don Gutteridge’s collections of poetry celebrate the poet’s childhood in Point Edward, the small town nestled under that yawning bridge teeming with cars dashing to places only dreamed about by those young villagers. One gets to know the wiles of the local fish and the best fishing places, and then sits and wonders at the woodworking skills of the poet’s grandfather or the eerily brilliant skating of his father. As I’ve read his collections, I’ve come to view the sands of Canatara as my ow...

Lily Fairchild is born in southern Ontario in 1840 and leads a life of constant struggle against the historical forces of her time: the coming of the railroads, the discovery of oil, the Riel Rebellions, the Great War and the influenza pandemic that followed. Three marriages and two children complicate her life and against all the odds she struggle and survives, always deciding on love whenever she can.

Stubborn Pilgrimage traces both the development of new teaching methods (what I call the post-Diltzian paradigm) and the resistance of English teachers to the serial attempts to have their programme hijacked by well-meaning psychologists and sociologists and a Ministry of Education increasingly in opposition to the kind of programming B.C. Diltz promulgated as long-time instructor and later principal of the Ontario College of Education; that is, the aesthetic appreciation of our b...

Praise for Don Gutteridge’s poetry:The Sands of Canatara:"Gutteridge has a divine gift; he crafts visions with an elegant ease, splashing colors on the canvas of the mind’s eye and recreating the past so vividly it argues for the concept of time standing still. Each poem is a treat, a moment to be savored, a contradiction of permanence and the passage of time. My favorite moments in this collection would have to be those spent with Uncle Potsy in “Leavened” an...

The political elite attends a charity ball at the residence of the wealthy Humphrey Cardiff. His widowed daughter, Delores Cardiff-Jones, flirts with all the men, enraging their wives. Amidst the political plotting of Marc Edwards and his associates, Delores is found impaled on an iron fence, with one of her suitors standing over the body. Marc controversially decides to defend him, while Cobb races to find the truth behind the beautiful young woman’s untimely death.

"In author Don Gutteridge’s seventh and final book set in Lambton County, How the World Began: A Parable of 1812, the reader is again brought along for a joyous adventuresome ride in a setting that for many has become a familiar and welcome place. Follow the story of friends Ti-Luc and Cal, as well as Cal’s squatter family, during a very tumultuous time in Canadian history. There are certainly adventures, intrigue, warring factions, mistrust and anxiety, but more than that, there are threa...

PRAISE FOR DON GUTTERIDGE’S POETRY:"God’s Oddities by author and poet Don Gutteridge is a collection of poetry that combines life-long lasting visuals with the most palpable of emotions. Three of the specific lines that demonstrate this strong capability are on page seven - “like the tangible tears I felt/when you left me without/saying goodbye.” The voice that he carries throughout its entirety is one that appears to find beauty in all moments and in all thing...

Hearthbeat: Poems of Family and Hometown is an anthology of poetry with authors: Lee Beavington, Sharon Berg, Ariane Blackman, William Bonnell, Ronnie R. Brown, April Bulmer, Lidia Chiarelli, Robert Currie, Chip Dameron, James Deahl, Bernadette Gabay Dyer, Daniela Elza, Lesley-Anne Evans, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Roy Geiger, Katherine L. Gordon, Elizabeth Greene, Andreas Gripp, Richard M. Grove, Richard Harrison, Farideh Hassanzadeh, Rhoda Hassmann, Laurence Hutchman, Keith Inman, Debbie Ok...

ENDUEDWhen you pulled upin that brand-newVolkswagen with the sunroof, my heartbeatabrupted, as the girl with theclementine curls, a smilefestooned with freckles and aglance that rhymed with romancestepped into the autumnal lightin her lemon-yellow dressand I was smitten breathless,bitten by love’s bite,and needed no prooffor my endued delight ormy sublime obsession.

"The poems in this collection span the decades of the poet’s existence, beginning with his childhood in the small village of Point Edward, Ontario. The poems celebrating his youth are filled with contrasts; images of the endless sands of the beach at Canatara that are “svelte and summering as/seven Saharas” and speak of perpetual summers, even as the actors in those long-ago memories were reaching out all-too-swiftly past their childhood innocence and entering the uncertain waters of their...