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No shelter : poems / Henry Doyle.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.D698 N67 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Henry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster children--Ontario--Poetry.
- Foster children.
- Runaway children--Ontario--Poetry.
- Runaway children.
- Juvenile delinquents--Ontario--Poetry.
- Juvenile delinquents.
- Prisoners--Ontario--Poetry.
- Prisoners.
- Homeless youth--Ontario--Ottawa--Poetry.
- Homeless youth.
- Homeless youth--Ontario--Toronto--Poetry.
- Construction workers--British Columbia--Vancouver--Poetry.
- Construction workers.
- Janitors--British Columbia--Vancouver--Poetry.
- Janitors.
- Doyle, Henry.
- British Columbia--Vancouver.
- Ontario.
- Ontario--Ottawa.
- Ontario--Toronto.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, British Columbia : Anvil Press Publishers Inc, [2021]
- Summary:
- "About the author's hard-scrabble journey from runaway to foster kid to incarcerated youth to boxer to homeless wage-earner living in shelters and on the streets of Ottawa and Toronto. Doyle's work is a potent combination of gritty realism, weary wisdom, and wry humour."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I
- The White Horse
- The House on Cooper Street
- The Hippies
- Dead Time, Innis Road
- Maplehurst
- Gladiator
- Beautiful Loser
- Raging Bull, 1982
- Remembrance Day
- II
- Down & Out in Ottawa
- Junkyard
- i. Labour Pool, Ottawa
- ii. Old Stanley & the Bibles
- iii. Odin
- iv. Steel Mountain
- v. The Accident 1991
- Ghost in the Closet
- No Room Left for Angels
- All-Day Breakfast
- Shotguns in the Sky
- The Last Bus
- III
- Slave Labour Pool
- Refugees from Nowhere
- Poetry of a Square Room
- Death Isn't Lonely
- Rooming House Blues
- Killing Me the Rest of the Way
- Pain & Wastings
- Hey Joe
- Underground Room
- Broken Key
- Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski
- The dtes Alarm Clock
- The Untouchables
- Ten Years Later
- IV
- Aftermath
- Enemy in the Mirror
- Welfare Wednesdays Kill More People than Bombs
- Harm Reduction
- Sunday Morning Sidewalk
- The Room, Oppenheimer Park Lodge
- Washroom Journals
- i. Prep
- ii. Eighteen Steps
- iii. The Phone Thief
- iv. Volcano Boy
- v. No Shelter The Pirate Artist
- Just Because We Live Here
- A Drunk with a Typewriter
- Soul on Fire
- Through All This.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1894 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781772141832
- 1772141836
- OCLC:
- 1292349350
- Publisher Number:
- 99991233065
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