I recently spoke to Jeff Blair, a 49 year old East Londoner with a long history of addiction. Jeff is only a few months into both recovery and poetry writing but his enthusiasm for each of them is ...

“So trust me now: when I say thirst, I mean defeated,/ abandoned-in-faith, lonely-as-the-slow-charge-into-a-bayonet/ thirst. Imagine being the sand forced to watch silt dance/ in the Nile ...

"He was struggling with his addiction and I just let ... Also, her brother Steven has been in recovery now for the past year and he's writing poetry as well.

In the Months of My Son’s Recovery is focused on a mother ... and educational materials relating to addiction. All of those ultimately fed the poems when I was finally able to write them ...

An overdose survivor is sharing his experience recovering from drug addiction ... features about 30 poems about Spenser Smith's experience with substance use and recovery amid B.C.'s toxic ...

He even helped fellow addicts achieve sobriety and had been in recovery for most of 2016 ... “So I started writing poems about his addiction, even when he was still alive. They were angry ...