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.
| ISBN: | 9781800173965 |
| Publication date: | 25th April 2024 |
| Author: | Rory Waterman |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
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'.
Come Here to This Gate features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Come Here to This Gate was written by Rory Waterman and published by Carcanet Poetry an imprint of Carcanet Press
Come Here to This Gate has 96 pages
£10.79, reduced from £11.99. In Stock.