Get Closer by Ryan Van Winkle valentine's day adds a shrewd historicising sense

adds a shrewd historicising sense to the lyric tenderness which glowed in her first book

while her wry wit and disarming tenderness hold us through the necessary storms that mark the way

The publisher also discerned - love and faith

author of Mythogeography and On Walking

Get Closer by Ryan Van Winkle valentine's day adds a shrewd historicising senseA stunning new collection from Edinburgh City Libraries' former Poet in Residence and current Artistic Director of StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival. In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographs to access themes of abandonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are. This collection is a poetic photo album. Through these poems, Van Winkle looks at life through a lens to get closer to