Come Here To This Gate by Rory Waterman poetry domestic and civic spaces in

domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice

Night Window explores impermanence in uncanny

Oliver Fox invites us to look at (and not just through) the technology that makes so much of our lives possible

Lawrence and Stevie Smith as well as modern poets Seamus Heaney

I read him as I might check the sky for stars

Come Here To This Gate by Rory Waterman poetry domestic and civic spaces inCome Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and 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