Love Hurries This

In this accomplished first collection, Hamish Guthrie is inspired by past people, places and experiences. The poet recollects traveling to his wife's hometown of Montana and back to the streets of Toronto where he grew up, and his childhood summers spent on a farm just outside of Guelph, where the wildlife opened up like a unique world unto itself.

Ideas, phrases, and journal notes beg for further study and experimentation, culminating in shape that becomes a poem. These poems are also often...