From the shock of diagnosis to an awakened awareness of life’s meaning and joy through the journey of a health crisis, Dvora Levin’s To Bite the Blue Apple documents a poet’s experience of cancer with humour, pathos and depth. This outstanding chapbook of poems will resonate with anyone who has dealt with a medical condition, whether their own or that of someone close. Through metaphor drawn from nature and art, Levin observes the disbelief, fear and despair that accompanies such a diagnosis and then moves towards illumination, inspiration and hope, as she bites that ‘blue apple’ of the unknown.

A recovering management consultant rewiring her life, Dvora Levin has published two books of poetry, To Bite the Blue Apple and Sharav (Ekstasis Editions). She is an active member of Victoria’s poetry community through public readings and “poeming” unsuspecting citizens in the street, hotel lobbies and Laundromats. It is her passion to invite sex workers, addicts and the homeless to rise from their cold hard beds and speak their truth.

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