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Don Gutteridge

 

 
Canadian Poetry; Hidden Brook Press; Canada; Canadian Literature; publishing; www.hiddenbrookpress.com; Devour; Devour: Art & Lit Canada; Find all of our mags; “Devour” and “The Ambassador” –www.issuu.com/richardgrove1/stacks/bc11ecdd1e7646c4b1fac2bb7aef11ef
 

 

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Lover’s Moon is a genuine, moving and intimate collection. Gutteridge continues to explore his major subjects – love, longing, grief, memories – in this rewarding latest collection. He continues to find ways to celebrate the fond memories of the past while mourning the loss of his loved ones and weaving a love for life well-lived.  Written in the memory of his beloved wife, the title poem, “Lover’s Moon,” is suffused with intimacy as Gutteridge invites the reader to accompany him on a trip down memory lane. Balancing tenderness with strength, and love with pain, Gutteridge offers a complex portrait of a narrator navigating old age with grace. This collection is brimming with poems full of heart.

The Prairies Review

 

 

Gutteridge explores love and memories in this taut, latest collection of heartfelt poems. Lover’s Moon explores love, longing, boyhood sexuality, lust, loneliness, pain, and memories. Some of the most poignant poems delve into Gutteridge’s wife’s memories, illustrating his deep love for her. In several poems, Gutteridge explores mortality, pain and grief, reckoning with time, language, and memory. Colored with sorrow and melancholic longing, one poem recalls the baby days of Gutteridge’s young grandson who lost his life at age 35. Several others are written on similar lines, exploring a melancholic longing and lasting grief of losing a young man to unexpected death. Timeless and intimate at once, the collection serves as a meditation on love and memories.

BookView Review

 

 

Don Gutteridge reveals an even more intimate side of his work in Lover’s Moon, his latest collection of thought-provoking and evocative poetry. Both pastoral and mythological, realistic and mystical, these poems artfully blur the line between imagining and recalling. Celebrating everything from “befuddled cuddling” to raw romance and the biblical sense of “knowing” someone, the themes and subject matter may be distilled into love and eroticism, but the poet’s execution and approach to these timeless subjects is unique and powerful. Nearly all the poems are brief – twenty lines or less – yet so much is packed into every carefully chosen phrase. Painting vivid versions of somewhat unremarkable scenes, the poet captures the dramatic in the everyday, and shines a whimsical light on all its overlooked beauty. Overall, this collection is a stunning, pulse-quickening surprise from a prolific and continually inventive poet.

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