Our featured poet: Don Gutteridge (Canadian Writer and Poet) with his new poetry collection translated by Anna Yin

Don Gutteridge is a Canadian author of 70 books: fiction, poetry and scholarly works; one of his poetry books was a finalist for Governor General’s Literary Awards in 1973. He taught at Western University in the Department of English Methods. He is now professor emeritus and lives in London, Ontario.
唐·古特里奇是加拿大作家，出版了70本书：小说、诗歌和学术作品,诗集1973年曾入围加拿大总督文学奖。唐·古特里奇在西安大略大学英语方法系任教多年。

Anna Yin was Mississauga’s Inaugural Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and has authored five poetry collections and a book of translations: “Mirrors and Windows”(Guernica Editions). Her poems/translations won awards and appeared at ARC Poetry, New York Times, Queen’s Quarterly, China Daily, CBC Radio etc. She teaches Poetry Alive. Her website: annapoetry.com

For Don Gutteridge /Anna Yin
The ink in your pen
seems never dry:
one after another,
poems flow through long
longing sentences,
filling your solitary rooms
as unforgettable songs.

Light shifts the silence
between day and night,
dream and dialogue –
you wait for your
loved ones’ echoes.

Let me record the rhythms
in your mind on your pages:
they are your heartbeats,
your lifeline from many years ago,
a simple and joyful “Yes”, and
they continue to this day
and forever.

给唐·古特里奇/星子安娜

你笔中的墨水
似乎永远不会干涸：
一首又一首的诗篇，
自绵长渴望的句中流淌，
填满你孤单的房间，
如同难忘的歌曲。

光线穿过白天和黑夜之间的寂静，
梦境与对话之间的寂静——
你等待爱人的回音。

让我记录下你思维
和书页中的节奏：
它们是你的心跳，
你多年前的命脉，
一个简单而欢乐的“我愿意”，
它们延续至今，直到永远。