Andrew\u2019s In won the Forward First Collection Prize in 2000. It\u2019s an amazing book: \u201chis poetry reveals an absolute artistic seriousness and perfectionism\u201d says Sean O\u2019Brien. We still have a few copies of the reprint remaining.<\/p>\n
You push back the sheet, leave me
\nnaked and cooling in the night air.
\nYou stand by the window,
\nby the yellow flowers in their blue vase
\nand there\u2019s the moon on your face and shoulders.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s here,\u201d you say, but I\u2019m pretending sleep,
\nand just watch you, watching the comet
\nmoving off towards the sun and beyond.
\nA car passes. Headlights fill the window,
\nmaking new shadows, that rise, then fall.
\nYou take a flower from the vase,
\ncarry it to me in both hands, slowly wipe
\nthe petals over my face. Now, I can smell
\nthe pollen on my skin, feel the trail.<\/p>\n
Andrew Waterhouse was born in Lincolnshire in 1958 and died in October 2001. He lived in Northumberland where he worked as a teacher and a freelance writer. He won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2000. A second volume, 2nd, featuring poems Andrew was gathering into a collection at the time of his death was published in 2002.<\/p>\n
‘I love Andrew Waterhouse’s poems for the pleasure they take in the language, their panache. They’re necessary poems: disturbing fables, intriguing anthropological investigations into life around the end of the century.\u2019 \u2018The poems of Andrew Waterhouse bring together the landscape, the mind and the fragile connections between people. The ambitious mixture is sometimes disturbing, sometimes extraordinarily serene, but always compelling. The few remarkable poems left to us deserve to be read well and often.\u2019 (The Rialto First Collection Series 2000) SOLD OUT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Andrew\u2019s In won the Forward First Collection Prize in 2000. It\u2019s an amazing book: \u201chis poetry reveals an absolute artistic seriousness and perfectionism\u201d says Sean O\u2019Brien. We still have a few copies of the reprint remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4217,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[170],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1898","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_shipping_class-books","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Michael Laskey<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Jo Shapcott<\/em><\/p>\n
\nISBN 0-9527444-1-4
\n2nd Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"