In his first compilation of poems, 'Dying in Berlin', R.L. Slater tackles a wide variety of subjects including love, doubt, the pleasures and terrors of drinking, and death. 'Dying in Berlin' at once feels like the confessions of a desperate man but then also reads like the confident pleas of a man who believes life can be better than it is. Sometimes haunting, sometimes funny and even playful, 'Dying in Berlin' always reads as the raw, honest musings of a true poet