A truly captivating tapestry of magnetic episodes
polemicists and disbelieving masses
the poems testify to the mind’s restlessness and its inventive responses to the world
Interspersed with a sequence on the deteriorating health of her father
maen nhw yn ymddiried yn ei gilydd i ryddhau egni o’r newydd ar sail y gred fod haearn yn hogi haearn
Come Here To This Gate by Rory Waterman Anna Deeny A truly captivating tapestry ofCome 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