As a fiction writer David Watmough has explored a range of emotions and experiences, but with his book of sonnets, he is able to encompass a more intimate and personal dimension, with stylish charm and candid restraint. David Watmough again takes a turn at poetry in Eyes & Ears of Boundary Bay, a second volume of elegant sonnets, and his 20th published book, as a follow up to the recent Coming Down the Pike. Watmough reinvigorates the sonnet form, the most austere and yet the most elastic of forms, to probe beneath the skin of reality, to discover the essence of things as they truly are. The poems in Eyes and Ears of Boundary Bay are both lyrical and reflective, forming a discreet narrative stretching from immediate experience to distant memory. David Watmough cultivates a small garden of human experience, within the discipline of fourteen lines. Passionate and ironic, these poems are a testament of a life fully lived and realized through art.

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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