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Come Here To This Gate

ISBN-13: 9781800173965
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
By Rory Waterman
Price: AUD $29.99
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Local release date: 01/07/2024
Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]

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Google Preview: Come Here to This Gate is a three-part collection, focusing variously on caring for an alcoholic father with dementia, the personal and global conflicts that shape our lives, and what happens when imps, ghosts and boggarts have to reckon with the modern world.; Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, grew up mainly in Lincolnshire, and lives in Nottingham. His previous full-length collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer's Over (2013), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses (2017), which was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize for Second Collections; and Sweet Nothings (2020). He is also a press critic, and has published several books on modern and contemporary poetry. He is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University.; • This fourth book is Waterman’s most formally, thematically and tonally varied collection to date • Previous collections shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney and Ledbury Forte Prizes • A three-part collection, focusing on caring for an alcoholic father with dementia, the personal and global conflicts that shape our lives, and what happens when imps, ghosts and boggarts have to reckon with the modern world • Includes the first ‘modernised’ retellings of four folk tales • Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University; Google Preview content