Come Here To This Gate by Rory Waterman pandemicpoetry Much like Elizabeth Tudor had

Much like Elizabeth Tudor had to do…

they are tender and grotesque

All is presented with a generosity and tenderness that makes the poet so unmistakable - and indispensable for the strange times in which we live

On Balance (2017)

Books of the Year

Come Here To This Gate by Rory Waterman pandemicpoetry Much like Elizabeth Tudor hadCome 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