"Elephant Street" offers a series of poetic responses to the vulnerability of the human urbanite in the 21st century.
Ron Charach was born and raised in Winnipeg, and educated in medicine and psychiatry in Winnipeg, Toronto and New York, completing his training in child and adolescent psychiatry at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1980.
Charach's poetry has appeared in most Canadian literary journals, as well as in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, and in the anthology of world physician poetry, Blood & Bone, published by the University of Iowa Press.
Charach's poems have won praise from prize-winning poets as diverse as Roo Borson, Don Coles and Don Mckay.
