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Tonight the Summer´s Over
Rory Waterman
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Description for Tonight the Summer´s Over
Paperback. The debut collection by a contributor to the acclaimed New Poetries V anthology. Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 219 x 6. Weight in Grams: 106.
The poems in Rory Waterman's debut collection Tonight the Summer's Over explore belonging and estrangement with precise resonance. Born in Belfast and brought up in rural Lincolnshire, Waterman turns an unblurred eye on his own childhood, caught between two countries, two cultures, two parents. Yet his poems are never mere autobiography: they are rooted in a broader concern for the inconsistencies of human experience. Tonight the Summer's Over becomes a book of love and hope: 'Lift the purest feather from the wreck. / Ignore the seagulls laughing against the sky.'
The poems in Rory Waterman's debut collection Tonight the Summer's Over explore belonging and estrangement with precise resonance. Born in Belfast and brought up in rural Lincolnshire, Waterman turns an unblurred eye on his own childhood, caught between two countries, two cultures, two parents. Yet his poems are never mere autobiography: they are rooted in a broader concern for the inconsistencies of human experience. Tonight the Summer's Over becomes a book of love and hope: 'Lift the purest feather from the wreck. / Ignore the seagulls laughing against the sky.'
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
106g
Number of Pages
66
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772077
SKU
V9781847772077
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99-22
About Rory Waterman
Rory Waterman was born in Belfast and grew up mostly in rural Lincolnshire. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2012. His poems have appeared in the TLS, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011), Poetry Review, The Best British Poetry 2012 (Salt, 2012), Stand, Agenda, PN Review and various other publications, and he co-edits New Walk arts magazine. He teaches English literature ... Read more
Reviews for Tonight the Summer´s Over
'Rory Waterman writes poems of the kind there'll always be a need for - poems that require skill to make but don't insist on it, that combine keen-eyed observation and immediately graspable shades of feeling in a memorable way. Waterman's is a very appealing voice, laconic, unillusioned and vulnerable. His world is a recognisable and convincing one, his ... Read more