Get Closer (Paperback)

Ryan Van Winkle

ISBN 10: 1846977363 / ISBN 13: 9781846977367

Published by Birlinn General, Edinburgh, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographsto access themes of abandonment, generationalincomprehension and the very notion of how we end upwhere we are. This collection is a poetic photo album.Through these poems, Van Winkle looks at life througha lens to get closer to meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life. He reckons with how we remember and misremember, and how memories and people can be difficult,and at times painful, to hold on to. In reading this collection it becomes clear that while photographs can be carefully ordered,the emotions and impressions surrounding them cannot. In his latest collection, Ryan Van Winkle uses photographs to access themes of abandonment, imprisonment, generational incomprehension and the very notion of how we end up where we are. This is a poetic photo album. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Get Closer (Paperback)
• Publisher: Birlinn General, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846977363
• ISBN 13: 9781846977367
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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 meditate on the anxieties and insecurities of a life. He reckons with how we remember and misremember, and how memories and people can be difficult, and at times painful, to hold on to. In reading this collection it becomes clear that while photographs can be carefully ordered, the emotions and impressions surrounding them cannot.

About the Author

Ryan Van Winkle, an American who has been living in Scotland for over 25 years, is an award-winning author, artist and producer based in Edinburgh. He is currently the Artistic Director of StAnza, Scotland's International Poetry Festival. His first collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here (Salt), won the Crashaw Prize. In 2015, his second collection, The Good Dark (Penned in the Margins), won the Saltire Society’s Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and New Writing Scotland.