Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski (Video)

."Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski" by Henry Doyle won the 2011 Downtown Eastside Writers' Jamboree Writing Contest.

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Below is a short documentary on Henry Doyle, his writing and the Downtown Eastside.

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HENRY DOYLE

Henry Doyle has been working as a custodian and maintenance worker in shelters and SROs on the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver since 2008. He now works in the biggest shelter in North America. Anvil Press published his debut collection, No Shelter, in 2021.

SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU

Poetry

EVELYN LAU

End Times

Distance blurred detail, so all that was visible / in the mysterious vapour were armloads of sparkle / he hauled as if from the sea

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Poetry

Sarah Wolfson

The Gravedigger

"... I remembered / the week the fireflies dissolved into crickets. / We'd just lived through the big thing ..."

Poetry

Jane Shi

Knot after knot of tomorrow

Two poems by Jane Shi

Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski (Video)

HENRY DOYLE

SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU

End Times

The Gravedigger

Knot after knot of tomorrow

STAY IN TOUCH

STAY IN TOUCH