These poems were written in the political and emotional wake of the “Missing Women” of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The concern of this project is an investigation of the troubled relationship between this specific marginalized neighbourhood, its “invisible” populations both past and present, and the wealthy, healthy city that surrounds it. These poems interrogate the comfortable distance from which the public consumes the sensationalist news story by turning their focus toward the normative audience, the equally invisible public.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2006.