{"product_id":"come-here-to-this-gate-9781800173965","title":"Come Here To This Gate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eCome Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is a candid and unexpected personal, brash, hilarious, and wide-ranging book about the last year of his father's life, the poet Andrew Waterman, against a backdrop of recrimination, love, and alcoholic dementia. It also rewrites several folk tales into galloping, sometimes rambunctious ballads for the 2020s. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 80 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 25 April 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Carcanet Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCome Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 106g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 134 x 215 x 9 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781800173965\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rory Waterman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":45796812718330,"sku":"9781800173965","price":8.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1714130129782_book.jpg?v=1714209074","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/come-here-to-this-gate-9781800173965","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}