Known primarily for fiction, author David Watmough takes a turn at poetry in Coming Down the Pike, a volume of elegant sonnets, his 19th published book. Stretching the sonnet form with the flexibility of his “inborn Cornish Rhythms,” Watmough celebrates a rich tapestry of experience in lyric, engaging and remarkably well-crafted poems. Drawn from nature, literature, human foibles and gay culture, Watmough’s sonnets, while loosely related to those of Milton, are humourous, ironic and authentic. With a mastery reminiscent of his friends, the literary giants Auden, Eliot and Dylan Thomas, Watmough sculpts the sonnet form to suit his diverse subjects, polished through rhythm and rhyme to reflect a life in letters.

David Watmough is the author of a cycle of fictions that features gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, who has appeared in twelve volumes, including No More into the Garden (1978), Unruly Skeletons (1982), The Year of Fears (1987), The Time of Kingfishers (1994), and Hunting With Diana (1996). Watmough is also a playwright, short-story writer, critic, broadcaster, and the author of nine other books. His novel Thy Mother's Glass (1992) was nominated in 2002 for CBC's Canada Reads. He lives in Vancouver.

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