The End of the Pier Show

Andrew Waterman is the recipient of the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and also a major prize in the Observer Poetry Competition. With each work, he continues to extend his themes and forms, including more of the visible and audible world. This text contains lyrics, elegies, satires and reflections. It goes into personal and historical pasts and expresses nostalgia without sentimentality. The animal world and that of human creatures is illuminated in love, grief and parenthood. The title poem celebrates things about England, about individual life, mediated through images of English seaside inheritance.