Rory Waterman
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Across the border
Isabelle Thompson reviews Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman (Carcanet, 2024)
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Let the morbid fancy roam
Rory Waterman reviews Donald Davie, Selected Poems, ed. Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet, 2022)
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A spill of yew
Rory Waterman reviews Apostasy by John Burnside (Dare-Gale Press, 2022)
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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, 2021)
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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
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Sort of Irish and sort of famous
Rory Waterman reveals the story behind his poem 'Like Father'