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This poetry book by Don Gutteridge is one of his finest collections of poems based on the theme of childhood. It is a joyous, candid, intimate observation of childhood memories written about going hunting with his father as a young boy and his silent gratitude at missing his mar, and he narrates stories of his father teaching him fishing and skating. He portrays a solid connection between identity and place that he traces in the language of wistfulness and familiarity. Gutteridge's gifts of using images and language with surgical precision are also much in evidence here.
About the author
Don Gutteridge was born in Sarnia and raised in the nearby village of Point Edward. He taught High School English for seven years, later becoming a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has published seventy-six books: poetry, fiction and scholarly works in literary criticism and pedagogical theory and practice. He has published twenty-two novels, including the twelve-volume Marc Edwards mystery series and a YA fable, The Perilous Journey of Gavin the Great, and thirty-eight books of poetry, one of which, Coppermine, was short-listed for the 1973 Governor-General's Award. In 1970 he won the UWO President's Medal for the best periodical poem of that year, "Death at Quebec." Don lives quietly in London, Ontario.
