The book is now available to order as a pre sale. Subscription is closed. The price for the book is \u00a310.<\/strong><\/p>\n Those of you who’ve been to Poetry Trust events will know Dean Parkin as the tall bespectacled figure dashing about making sure that poets and audiences are in the right place at the right time. Some of you will also know that he is an excellent poet and you will have sought out his various pamphlets. We at The Rialto<\/em> want to produce Dean’s First Full Collection of poems, provisionally entitled The Swan Machine<\/em>.<\/p>\n Originally created as a subscription publication which has a long and honourable history going back to the Seventeenth Century, and it is thought to have been invented to avoid dependence upon fickle patrons. We’re using this method to publish Dean’s book. All subscribers’ names have been listed in the book. Thank you for making the book happen.<\/p>\n Here’s a sample poem: there’ll be others on the website as we go on with the production, but, as you can see, his poetry is accessible and joyous.<\/p>\n SWEET OFFER<\/p>\n Do you want a murray mint? I ask. you tell me what you thought I’d said: Dean Parkin<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please note due to the nature of this type of publishing the publication date is currently not set.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The book is now available to order as a pre sale. Subscription is closed. The price for the book is \u00a310.<\/strong><\/p>\n Those of you who’ve been to Poetry Trust events will know Dean Parkin as the tall bespectacled figure dashing about making sure that poets and audiences are in the right place at the right time. Some of you will also know that he is an excellent poet and you will have sought out his various pamphlets. We at The Rialto<\/em> want to produce Dean’s First Full Collection of poems, provisionally entitled The Swan Machine<\/em>.<\/p>\n Originally created as a subscription publication which has a long and honourable history going back to the Seventeenth Century, and it is thought to have been invented to avoid dependence upon fickle patrons. We’re using this method to publish Dean’s book. All subscribers’ names have been listed in the book. Thank you for making the book happen.<\/p>\n Here’s a sample poem: there’ll be others on the website as we go on with the production, but, as you can see, his poetry is accessible and joyous.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3960,"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-3002","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"featured","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3002","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\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therialto.co.uk\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNot the best place, the beach, at night
\nin November, bracing you call it; wind
\nsmattered with rain, as, deep in my pocket,
\nmy fingers recover one of last summer’s
\nhalf-melted sweets. Further down the shore<\/p>\n
\nDo you want to marry me? How I continued
\nIt might be a bit sticky, and then
\nI’m not selling this to you, am I? As I fudged
\nin my jacket for something I held out
\nand pressed into your palm.<\/p>\nTHE SWAN MACHINE by DEAN PARKIN<\/h3>\n