“With an astounding breadth of vision, Canadian author Patrick Woodcock’s latest release, Always Die Before Your Mother offers a travelogue of verses from locations around the world that could only have been written in our time. Call it global poetry, and Woodcock is the front-line correspondent. From locations as far-flung as the turbulent Arabian Peninsula to the rain forests of South American, he sends copy which provides soul-filled and heart-wrenching accounts of life outside the bubble of our everyday lives.”