Tomorrow, We Will Live Here

This is a terse, tough début by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life - death, love, sex, departure - honed by a voice obsessed with the gravity, fear and the humour of being human. Van Winkle's understated, plain spoken, narrators are as diverse as the America they live in - the lonely night nurse, the conflicted son of a preacher, and the cross-country runner - are all ill at ease in the world. Through road kill, September 11th, and death row they address their own bitter faults with noir-like melancholy, seeking redemption and absolution.

About the author

Ryan Van Winkle is Reader in Residence at the Scottish Poetry Library. He runs a monthly “Literary Cabaret” called The Golden Hour and is an Editor at Forest Publications. He lives in Edinburgh but was born and spent most of his life in America. His work has appeared in New Writing Scotland, The American Poetry Review, AGNI and Northwords Now and The Oxford Poet series. He has won Salt's Crashaw Prize and been shortlisted for the Bridport and Ver Poetry Prizes.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan van Winkle, Ryan Van Winkle
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.11.2010
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781844717897
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-789-7
• Pages: 80
• Illustrations: Not illustrated
• Dimensions (packing): 13.2 x 19.8 x 0.7 cm
• Weight (packing): 98 g
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subjects: POETRY / General; Poetry by individual poets; Poetry / poems by individual poets