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ISBN 978-1-897430-73-7 Collected Poems 1951-2009 (poetry) 55.95
published 2010 508 pages

The label ‘Collected Poems’ sounds definitive, but is flexible. For some poets it has meant gathering everything they have written that manages to stay afloat; for others, a snipping off here and there of ‘poor shoots’ (watershoots, perhaps). Yet others collect those poems they consider their strongest, what they wish to be represented by posthumously. This last is Mike Doyle's approach, creating a necessary collection gleaned from six decades of poetry.

ISBN 1-894800-55-9 Living Ginger (poetry) 16.95
published 2004 88 pages

For many years Mike Doyle has been crafting poems of dense meditative beauty. By cutting a path down the middle of the extremes of modern tradtitions, he has created a poetry that is at once intellectually precise and imaginatively alert to the immediate.

ISBN 1-896860-19-2 Trout Spawning at Lardeau River (poetry) 12.95
published 1997 86 pages

In Trout Spawning at Lardeau River moments of personal resonance flow with utter conviction. It is a book filled with the constant grace of the natural world and a depth of thought rare in poetry today.

ISBN 978-1-897430 Paper Trombones: notes on poetics (criticism) 22.95
published 2007 166 pages

In Paper Trombones poet and scholar Mike Doyle shares musings on poetry – his own and others'– drawn from informal journal notes of the past thirty years.

ISBN 978-1-897430-48-4 The Watchman's Dance: Poems 2004-2009 (poetry) 21.95
published 2009 100 pages

Mike Doyle is one our more significant poets, and all he chooses to tell is told so quietly one marvels at the transparency of his art, as the complexity, variety, and depth of his work are presented in deceptively simple and disarmingly open contemplative poetry. The Watchman’s Dance is an urgent and imaginitively vigorous book, perhaps his most accessible, mysterious and immediately beautiful book.

             
Mike Doyle & Cid Corman          
             

ISBN 1-896860-74-5 Where to Begin: the selected letters of Mike Doyle and Cid Corman (literature) 17.95
published 2000 88 pages

Edited by Kegan Doyle, Where to Begin is a dialogue about poetry by two poets engaged in friendship yet speaking from different traditions. The lively exchange includes talk of common friends and interests, recent work by themselves and others, and the experience of living and writing in the modern world.