Doug Beardsley has published over a dozen books in a career that has spanned more than three decades. Published to critical acclaim, they include The Only Country in the World Called Canada, Kissing the Body of My Lord: The Marie Poems, Dancing Star, and Inside Passage. His work has appeared in the Canadian Forum, Malahat Review, Canadian Literature, American Poetry Review, Antigonish Review, and Matrix. He is also represented in several anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of Canadian Poetry.