By & By brings together two Canadian poetry icons into one book. This is a wonderful collaboration that should never be forget.Two sets of poems by two fine Canadian authors; a Professor Emeritus and a Poet Laureate bring Canadian culture a boost of poetic virtuosity. Both fine wordsmiths, both playing the tune, "In the Sweet By and By" about past and present. Once you have read this fine collection you will be able to say, by and by I read a fine book of ...

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...

In a wonderful follow up to Summer's Idyll, the book that first introduced his readers to protagonist "Billy" or "Junior," this second work, Winter's Descent continues this lovely story and will certainly keep readers enthralled from beginning to end. Following Billy and his life as he moves with his mother to the countryside of Ontario during the Second World War, the story is one that provides deeply personal historical detail that Gutteridge's fans have come to know and love. Billy is e...

This locked mansion mystery is set in 1839 at a country estate north of Toronto. Marc and Robert Baldwin have been working tirelessly to effect responsible government in Upper Canada (Ontario). In a few months, Upper and Lower Canada (Quebec) will be joined in a single legislature, and savvy political leaders see this as an opportunity to forge a solid alliance with like-minded Quebec representatives to facilitate democratic reforms. The secret meeting with visitors from the Quebec Rouge P...

Bus-Ride is a week in the lives of the people of a small Ontario town in March 1939, most notably in the life of Bill Underhill. Bill is the town’s star hockey player, scouted by the big leagues and certain of a pro career. Everyone is sure he will leave the village one day as the Leafs’ new centre, everyone but Bill. This is definitely a poet’s novel. What might have been another pedestrian boy-grows-to-manhood-unsubtle-autobiography becomes first-class fiction with Gutteridge’s skill and...

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.

All in Good Time is an authentic story of camaraderie, rivalry and national pride. Don Gutteridge is a story teller through and through. His skill at spinning yarn is seen all the way through his novel All in Good Time this Novel is well worth this second life.The time is February, 1945. The War in Europe is raging towards its last catastrophe. The people of the village beside the Great Lake are waiting for war to end; for the incursion of a US hockey team...

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 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.

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.

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...

"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...