"Kirby's contributions to the concept of "The Poet", was more than just the publications of some 300 separate poems, with reprints in magazines and anthologies making a total of over 780 poems published to date. Indeed, his life and his contributions, in both poetry and prose,have become a living symbol of a chosen vocation, that of the vision of the Poet as a philosopher of the human condition. True, his poems remain his first concern, but the reader of this bibliography will find that Kirby Congdon was not just a writer of poetry, he was also a student and a judge of poetry and its place in today's world"