Poetry

Drunken Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski (Video)

HENRY DOYLE

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

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.


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