Tonight the Summer's Over
Published on 28. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
66 pages
978-1-84777-207-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.'
Reviews / Votes
'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 rueful, sometimes harsh sincerity is palpable, and he deserves to be read by anyone to whom these things still matter.'Alan Jenkins
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
102 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-207-7 (9781847772077)
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Person
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; Sweet Nothings (2020) and and Come Here to This Gate (2024), described in the Guardian as 'a wise and deeply satisfying book'.. 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. Author photo by Thomas Curtis.
Content
NavigatingFamily Business Visiting Grandpa Retrospect What Passing Bells Rebirth Island In the Avenue of Limes An Email from Your Mother Two Growing Pains1. Distance 2. For My Father 3. Ireland, 10 Access Visit Seeing Him Off at the StationCraigmillar Castle at Dusk Faroe Islands: Notes for Three PhotographsNettlesReverdieSeeing Baby Emrys in GwyneddSalisbury, After the ArgumentFor R.S. ThomasComing HomeFrom a Birmingham Council FlatBroadlandWhere Were You When...The OutingsA SuicideWest Summerdale Ave53 degrees 09'33.17" N, 0 degrees 25'33.18" WTo Help the Birds through WinterThe LakeShrine for a Young Soldier, Castle DrogoOn Derry City Walls, 1992UnfoldingMarstrandWinter Morning, Connecticut A Wedding Photograph Back in the Village Compulsions The Fields over Winceby Battlefield Spring Shower, Metheringham Fen The Beck Keepsakes 'You're a shower of bastards' Note to Self: Chip Shop Battered Sausage and Other Meat Stopping for a Moment on Exmoor Back Infant Stranger Sendai Fall Hallowed Turf The Shipwreck Memorial a Mile from Town Over the Heath Out to the Fen