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artists and consultants but nobody who can give him clear answers to his questions or a sense of what his work might actually be beyond a five star capitalist purgatory in a series of exotic locations

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

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

their other worlds

and morally infused with an acute sense of justice

Get Closer by Ryan Van Winkle valentine's day artists and consultants but nobodyA 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