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For
many years Mike Doyle has been crafting poems of dense meditative beauty.
Always eclectic, he is a poet who discovers fresh perspectives but always
applies appropriate form to content. Doyle is distinguished by a scrupulous
and uncompromising commitment to the poetic art, avoiding literary fashions
and the facile easy line so popular today. 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. There is tension but also resolution between eye and idea,
between the imagination and the intellect. Mike Doyle is one of our best
poets, tracing out moments of personal resonance,delicately, musically,
and with utter conviction.
Mike Doyle, whose
background is Irish, grew up in London, England and has lived in Canada
for more than thirty years. He has written numerous books of poetry, as
well as books on William Carlos Williams and James T. Baxter, a biography
of Richard Aldington, plus critical essays on Williams, Wallace Stevens,
H.D. and others. His home is in Victoria, B.C., and he spends the winter
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