This is a rare glimpse into a world few of us will ever see, as strange and exotic as a traveler’s tales from some remote destination. The irony is that these poets live here, among us, doing hard time in hard places on the margins of our polite society. The defining quality of their work is its authenticity-not artful phrasing or carefully polished subtleties. The angst of the coffee-shop Bohemian is nowhere to be seen. This is real, raw, flinch-inducing stuff that will challenge you to keep reading and not turn away. Proceeds from sales of this book will be used for further programs at the Rock Bay Landing shelter and PEERS Victoria Resource Society in Victoria, BC.

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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