My name is Henry Doyle, a poet who lives and works in the DTES. I have been involved in the Thursdays Writing Collective at the Carnegie Centre since 2009, with Elee Kraljii Gardiner. Elee has inspired me and guided me through the deep and winding roads of writing poetry.
Publications:
“Underground room,” Thursday’s 02, Writings from the Carnegie Centre, 2009
” Spear of Longinus,” Thursday’s 03, These words, 2009
“Rooming House Blues,” Megaphone Vancouver’s Street Paper, Issue 50, April 02, 2010
“Rooming House Blues,” 24 Hours newspaper, May 26, 2010
“DTES Alarm Clock,” Megaphone Vancouver’s Street Paper, Issue 55, June 11, 2010
“DTES Alarm Clock,” Poetry is Dead magazine, Issue 02, volume 02, 2010
“Pain and Wastings,” Megaphone Vancouver’s Street Paper, Issue 62, September 17, 2010
“Untouchables,” Megaphone Vancouver’s Street Paper, Issue 67, November 26, 2010
“Hey Joe,” The Writers Caravan Anthology, 2011
“Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski,” Geist magazine, issue 82, Fall 2011
“Death Isn’t Lonely,” “Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski,” “Broken Key,” V6A, Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012
“HST,” Voices of the Street. Megaphone Magazine, 2012
“Poetry of a Squared Room,” “Dreaming of Death, 1979,” The Stanza Project. Thursdays Writing Collective & MLPPROOSTEN ARCHITECTURE, 2013
“8 track,” “Fuck the Poets,” Voice to Voice, 2015
Award:
One of three winners of the DTES writers Jamboree contest
(Photo Credit: Matthew Zylstra Sawatzky, courtesy of Megaphone Magazine)