: Rory Waterman
: Tonight the Summer's Over
: Carcanet
: 9781847775122
: 1
: CHF 20.10
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: Lyrik
: English
The poems in Rory Watermans debut collection Tonight the Summers 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 Summers Over becomes a book of love and hope: Lift the purest feather from the wreck. / Ignore the seagulls laughing against the sky.