Review of The Exiled Heart: Selected Narratives

Don Gutteridges poems, it seems to me, are masterfully crafted; the

deftness of diction, the preciseness of the images, and the overall
metaphorical structure vivify an emotional and spiritual reality which is not
only the core of our history but is at the centre of our lives. Gutteridge,
seeking to understand how the spirit of the past impinges on the present,
merges past and present so that, as Joseph Conrad put it, he arouses that
latent feeling of fellowship with all creation . . . the dead to living, the living
to the unborn.
Literary critics will have much to say about Gutteridges uniquely
Canadian vision. I am content that his poetry is accessible, unobtrusive,
delights the ear, stirs the heart and even enters into the soul. It is the art
that mirrors inner life.
R. G. Moyles, The University of Alberta
In The Journal of Canadian Poetry.

Don Gutteridge is the author of more than forty books: fiction, poetry and
scholarly works. He was born in Sarnia and raised in the nearby village of
Point Edward. He graduated from The University of Western Ontario in
1960 with an Honours English degree, and taught high school English for
seven years before moving to the Western Faculty of Education. He taught
there for twenty-five years, and is now Professor Emeritus. He lives in
London, Ontario.