Get Closer

Author:   Ryan Van Winkle
Publisher:   Birlinn General
ISBN:  

9781846977367


Pages:   112
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Format:   Paperback
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In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographsto access themes of abandonment, generationalincomprehension and the very notion of how we end upwhere we are. This collection is a poetic photo album. Through these poems, Van Winkle looks at life througha lens to get closer to meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life. He reckons with how we remember and misremember, and how memories and people can be difficult,and at times painful, to hold on to. In reading this collection it becomes clear that while photographs can be carefully ordered,the emotions and impressions surrounding them cannot.

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Author:   Ryan Van Winkle
Publisher:   Birlinn General
Imprint:   Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.090kg
ISBN:  

9781846977367


ISBN 10:   1846977363
Pages:   112
Publication Date:   05 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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'A deeply rich and nostalgic collection driven by story and heart . . . These poems deserve to be revisited again and again' -- Andrés N. Ordorica


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Ryan Van Winkle, an American who has been living in Scotland for over 25 years, is an award-winning author, artist and producer based in Edinburgh. He is currently the Artistic Director of StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival. His first collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here (Salt), won the Crashaw Prize. In 2015, his second collection, The Good Dark (Penned in the Margins), won the Saltire Society's Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and New Writing Scotland.

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