Get Closer
Will be published approx. on 5. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-84697-736-7 (ISBN)
Description
In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle explores the themes of abandonment, imprisonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are.
The poet looks at his life through a lens - to get closer - to meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life, and how we remember and mis-remember, how memories and people can be difficult and at times hurtful to hold onto it. In reading this collection it becomes clear that although these recollections may be ordered, the emotions and impressions surrounding them are not.
The poet looks at his life through a lens - to get closer - to meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life, and how we remember and mis-remember, how memories and people can be difficult and at times hurtful to hold onto it. In reading this collection it becomes clear that although these recollections may be ordered, the emotions and impressions surrounding them are not.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84697-736-7 (9781846977367)
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Person
Ryan Van Winkle, an American who has been living in Scotland for over 25 years, is an award-winning author, artist and producer based in Edinburgh. He is currently the Artistic Director of StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival. His first collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here (Salt), won the Crashaw Prize. In 2015, his second collection, The Good Dark (Penned in the Margins), won the Saltire Society's Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and New Writing Scotland.