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Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman is the author of three collections from Carcanet: Tonight the Summer’s Over, which was a PBS Recommendation and was shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses, shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize, and most recently Sweet Nothings. He teaches English at Nottingham Trent University, has written several books on modern and contemporary poetry, and co-edits New Walk Editions. Rory Waterman’s website is here

    An abstract image (yes, yet another poetry book cover featuring an abstract image ... sigh) showing what looks like various shades of light to mid blue water clolour paint daubed in a swirly pattern on a light blue background.

    Let the morbid fancy roam

    Rory Waterman reviews Donald Davie, Selected Poems, ed. Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet, 2022)
    Abstract painting with splashes of colour. Shades of blue and purple on a cream background, some splashy shapes, some more kind of smudgy. All looks a bit cataclysmic.

    A spill of yew

    Rory Waterman reviews Apostasy by John Burnside (Dare-Gale Press, 2022)
    What does Rory Waterman say?

    What does Rory Waterman say?

    At primary school, we had a teacher who encouraged us to write poems, and I realised I was relatively good at putting words into action ...
    An old Russian Tank and the front of a US military plane in a museum in Korea

    North and South

    Rory Waterman talks about his time as international writer in residence for Bucheon UNESCO City of Literature and his commission to write about the border
    Dark grey circle with a light grey line drawn eel circling within. It sits on a textured grey background that could be an abstract shoal of eels.

    I was nothing but a heretic cormorant

    Rory Waterman reviews The European Eel by Steve Ely (Longbarrow, 2021)
    Photo of Rory Waterman wearing a blue sweatshirt, sitting in front of a purple wall.

    Sort of Irish and sort of famous

    Rory Waterman reveals the story behind his poem 'Like Father'
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