 Publishing poetry in the early 1950s, Eli Mandel's first significant collection was entitled "Minotaur poems" (1954), and it appeared in the contact press anthology "Trio" (1954).His poetry was published in 1954 in "Trio," an anthology of poems by Mandel, Gael Turnbull, and Phyllis Webb published by Raymond Souster's Contact Press.His first book was "Fuseli poems" (1960).