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Come Here to This Gate - by Rory Waterman (Paperback)
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- Come Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and unexpected, personal, brash, hilarious, and wide-ranging.
- About the Author: Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, and grew up in Lincolnshire.
- 80 Pages
- Poetry, European
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Come Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and unexpected, personal, brash, hilarious, and wide-ranging. The book is in three parts, the first a sequence about the last year of the life of his father, the poet Andrew Waterman, against a backdrop of recrimination, love and alcoholic dementia: 'your silences were trains departing'. The second consists of poems that open various gates, or are forcibly restrained behind them, from the literal North and South Korean border to the borders between friends, and those imposed by photographs, memories, and paths taken and not taken. The third opens on the poet's rural home county of Lincolnshire. He rewrites several folk tales into galloping, sometimes rambunctious ballads for the 2020s: what happens when imps, ghosts, and a boggart who looks like a 'doll left behind at Chernobyl' must reckon with the modern world and the people who lumber through it.About the Author
Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, and grew up in Lincolnshire. He lives in Nottingham. Come Here to This Gate is his fourth collection of poems.Additional product information and recommendations
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