{"product_id":"sarajevo-roses-rory-waterman-9781784104085","title":"Sarajevo Roses","description":"\u003ci\u003eSarajevo Roses \u003c\/i\u003eis Rory Waterman's second collection of poems. From the start we are in the company of a poet on the move. On sleeper trains, in cars and on foot, Waterman takes us into Mediterranean Europe, to Palma's Bellver Castle, to Venice, to Krujë, to the Italian ghost-town Craco, and to St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, where 'selfie-sticks dance before us at the altar'. Sarajevo's 'neatened muddle of terracotta and concrete' is twinned with the 'church spires and rain-bright roofs' of the poet's former hometown, Lincoln. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Sarajevo rose of the book's title--a mortar crater filled with red resin, in remembrance--is less an overarching symbol here than one example of the past inscribed upon the present--culturally in our architecture, individually on our bodies--and of the instinct to preserve wounds as a mark of respect, or warning. Surrounded by the war-shaped, memorial landscapes of Europe, the poet is faced by those smaller wars and memorials one carries within, marks left by lovers, friends, relations, and past selves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rory Waterman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784104086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784104085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.30d","brand":"Rory Waterman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46140778610943,"sku":"9781784104085","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_840afe80-15ff-48ee-9a35-a848de456992.jpg?v=1726597006","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sarajevo-roses-rory-waterman-9781784104085","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}