Mudtown was a working-class neighbourhood tightly wedged between once busy docks, factories and the escarpment along the east shore of Owen Sound Bay, regularly inundated with mud during spring rains. Beyond Mudtown, Rob Rolfe's third collection of poetry, is an imagined visit into past and present-day Mudtown, the Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula and places beyond.

Rob Rolfe is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Crooked Bridge (Lyricalmyrical, 2005) and The Tracks of the Dead (Lyricalmyrical, 2007). Born in London, Ontario, he currently lives and works in Toronto. He is a librarian with a special interest in public library service to First Nations, the Black/Caribbean and Spanish-speaking communities, and as a trade unionist he has been involved in social justice issues for many years. His poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Prairie Journal, This Magazine, Impulse, Canadian Dimension, Rikka, Our Times and the anthology, Garden Variety (Quattro Books, 2007).

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