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Sarajevo Roses
About This Book
Shortlisted for the 2019 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections.
Sarajevo Roses is Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move. On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to Krujë, to the Italian ghost-town Craco, and to St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, where 'selfie-sticks dance before us at the altar'. Sarajevo's 'neatened muddle of terracotta and concrete' is twinned with the 'church spires and rain-bright roofs' of the poet's former hometown, Lincoln.
The Sarajevo rose of the book's title â a mortar crater filled with red resin, in remembrance â is less an overarching symbol here than one example of the past inscribed upon the present â culturally in our architecture, individually on our bodies â and of the instinct to preserve wounds as a mark of respect, or warning. Surrounded by the war-shaped, memorial landscapes of Europe, the poet is faced by those smaller wars and memorials one carries within, marks left by lovers, friends, relations, and past selves.
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CONTENTS
- Title Page
- Follow the Waymarked Trail out of the Village
- The Avenue
- Driving through the Pit Town
- June Morning, Erewash Canal
- Anderby Creek
- Family
- 34, Above Cwmystwyth
- Sea Kayaker on the Point
- Double Vision
- It Was
- Parable with Ageing Parent
- Coming of Age
- Granattrichter mit Blumen (1924)
- Sarajevo Roses
- Krujë
- Reunion
- Ave Maria
- The Brides of Castell De Belver
- Scaling the Volcano
- Ghost Town, Basilicata
- St Peterâs Basilica
- Writ in Water
- St Denis Appartements, Rue De Montreuil
- BĂșĂ°ir
- Getaway
- Pulling over to Inspect a...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- SARAJEVO ROSES
- FOLLOW THE WAYMARKED TRAIL OUT OF THE VILLAGE
- THE AVENUE
- DRIVING THROUGH THE PIT TOWN
- JUNE MORNING, EREWASH CANAL
- ANDERBY CREEK
- FAMILY
- 34, ABOVE CWMYSTWYTH
- SEA KAYAKER ON THE POINT
- DOUBLE VISION
- IT WAS
- PARABLE WITH AGEING PARENT
- COMING OF AGE
- GRANATTRICHTER MIT BLUMEN (1924)
- SARAJEVO ROSES
- KRUJĂ
- REUNION
- AVE MARIA
- THE BRIDES OF CASTELL DE BELVER
- SCALING THE VOLCANO
- GHOST TOWN, BASILICATA
- ST PETERâS BASILICA
- WRIT IN WATER
- ST DENIS APPARTEMENTS, RUE DE MONTREUIL
- BĂĂIR
- GETAWAY
- PULLING OVER TO INSPECT A PILLBOX WITH A NORTH AMERICAN TOURIST
- BREXIT DAY ON THE BALMORAL ESTATE
- SPURN
- WINTER FIXTURE
- SLEEPER
- SOTS HOLE
- 11 OâCLOCK SHADOW
- BETWEEN VILLAGES
- SOME TIME AFTER LAST ORDERS
- EPICENTRES
- ST THOMASâS
- FLENSBY HALL DAY SPA
- THE ONES THAT GIVE
- THE WALLED GARDEN
- THE HERITAGE CENTRE
- LOVE IN A LIFE
- BEACHED STARS
- BEDD ARTHUR
- TUESDAY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Also by Rory Waterman
- Copyright