The Friday Poem

A poem every Friday

Rory Waterman

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
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I was nothing but a heretic cormorant

Rory Waterman reviews The European Eel by Steve Ely (Longbarrow Press, 2021)
Coda

Coda

by Rory Waterman — In our perfected future, there will be / a bedroom in the loft, a baby boy / to fill it, and we’ll kiss on sun-kissed sand / in every paradise we dreamed about // before you changed, when I first took you
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'