Ryan Van Winkle talks to me about his stunning, prize-winning collection Tomorrow, We Will Live Here:

I had the great pleasure to catch up with Ryan Van Winkle yesterday, at the Phoenix Artist Club, to celebrate the launch of his Crashaw Prize winning debut collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here. (Buy it NOW, with 20% off.)

I’m delighted to be the first stop on Ryan’s Virtual Book Tour, which promises to be a series of lively, provoking, silly and serious interviews, hosted by these excellent blogs:

12 November 2010:  leesmithwriter 

14 November 2010: Our sweet old etcetera… 

16 November 2010: G.P.S. Global Poetry System 

18 November 2010: Surroundings – Rob A. Mackenzie’s blog 

20 November 2010: Robin Grey 

24 November 2010: Scottish Book Trust 

26 November 2010: Flotsam 

28 November 2010: Molossus 

30 November 2010: Dan Meth

Tomorrow, We Will Live Here
ISBN 9781844717897  £9.99 

Plain spoken narrators as diverse as the America they inhabit – a pastor’s son, the lonely night nurse and fat boy – are all ill at ease. Through road kill, September 11th and death row characters address their own bitter faults with noir-like melancholy, seeking redemption and absolution. What you will find here is the grist of life – death, love, sex, departure – honed by a poet focused on the gravity, fear and humour of living.

Buy a copy of the book from Salt’s online store here, and you get 20% off.

Watch highlights from the Crashaw launch event here.