Poetry. THE SOUND WE MAKE OURSELVES collects Dooley's best work from over forty–five years of writing and publishing. Philip Gross of <em>Poetry Review</em> says of this book, "Nothing is out of bounds," and David Weatley says in the <em>Times Literary Supplement</em> that Dooley "makes an implicit case for the underground power of art."
Tim Dooley is a tutor for The Poetry School and a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster. He was a teacher for many years and has been an Arts Mentor for the Koestler Trust. From 2008 to 2017 he was reviews and features editor of Poetry London. He is co-editor (with Martha Kapos) of The Best of Poetry London (Carcanet, 2014). His first collection of poems, The Interrupted Dream, was published by Anvil in 1985. This was followed by the pamphlets The Secret Ministry (2001) and Tenderness (2004), both winners in the Smith/Doorstop Poetry business pamphlet competition. Tenderness was also a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Keeping Time (Salt, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was followed by Imagined Rooms (Salt, 2010). THE SOUND WE MAKE OURSELVES: POEMS 1971-2016 was published by Eyewear in 2016 and WEEMOED in 2017.