“In all these rich, juicy, poignant, joyous, heartbreaking, and hope-filled works do I bid you: come, sit a while, and enjoy.”

The Rev. Pauli Reese
Union Theological Seminary

Bea Wohl’s debut collection, Motorway Service Station Blues and Other Poems, explores life’s liminal spaces – the in-between places of becoming and transition. From the windswept plains of Wyoming to the quiet heart of Cumbria, these poems take the reader on a journey of reflection and discovery.

Emerging from the ashes of sorrow and grief, they illuminate how, through life’s changes, we learn to spread our wings and take flight. Wohl’s poems speak to coming to terms with loss, learning to forgive, and finding the extraordinary in the everyday – even in a fleeting stop at a motorway service station, whether for a few minutes or a few nights in a Travelodge.

Ultimately triumphant, this is a book about finding strength invisibility – and taking pride in being seen.

“Bea’s work is grounded in its raw nature, but celestial in its ability to connect with the reader.”

Daniel-Jose Cyan
Queer Artist