Rory Waterman
Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing. Most recent poetry collection COME HERE TO THIS GATE (Carcanet, 2024). Co-editor of New Walk Editions. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
- www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... Many will continue to profess to believe what they've been told to believe. they don't mean it - they're passing the test given to them by their government and its new military force. Fail the test and presumably you also are a potential 'domestic terrorist'.
- I'm grateful to Triastram Fane Saunders for reviewing Endless Present in the @thetls.bsky.social: ‘One of the most honest and reliable poetry reviewers writing today'; 'superb and surprising’. And a few lukewarm things that - ahem - unfortunately can't fit here. www.centralbooks.com/endless-pres...
- The US President tells Europe we'd all be speaking German and a bit of Japanese were it not for the USA. It's a great way to rebuild relations after threatening military action against allies. (1)
- If you grew up in the East Midlands in the 1990s, and this song doesn't remind you of many a disappointing night on the town, there might be something wrong with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELXY...
- Join me for this online poetry workshop on Monday evening: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...
- This is happening at 5.30-7pm on 4 March in Nottingham (NTU City Campus), it's free, and obviously I'll love it if you turn up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...
- Looking forward to it!
- My review of John Greening's A High Calling in this week's TLS: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
- A very good little article by my friend and PhD student Julie Gardner in The Conversation: theconversation.com/how-poetry-c...
- Welcome to the enlightened world of @theguardian.com in 2025: Bardot 'became an inspiration for intellectuals and artists' (i.e. two of The Beatles) because she made them wish their girlfriends had blond [sic] hair.
- Congratulations to Donald Trump for winning a peace prize invented for him by FIFA, an organisation well known and regarded for its humanitarianism.
- The continued silence of the publisher and author is not golden, is it?
- Wanted: a left-wing party in the UK that isn't ridiculous in one way or another or several ways at once. I'm right here, waiting for you, along with much of the electorate. Thanks.
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- A lot of people should be ashamed, having behaved disgracefully. Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/... I also wrote about this, for PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema... But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
- TOMORROW (20 November), online, 7pm: MARK FORD and SEAN O'BRIEN launch their New Walk Editions pamphlets. Sign up below. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- 20 November (one week today), online, 7pm: MARK FORD and SEAN O'BRIEN launch their New Walk Editions pamphlets. Sign up below. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- I'm reading in OXFORD, 12 Nov (Wednesday) at 6.30pm. Please come! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...
- Choosing poems for a reading in Oxford next week. This starts a sequence in my most recent collection (www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017396...). I worried it was too syrupy, but concluded it provided balance to other parts of the sequence & could survive in context. Here it is OUT of context.
- Sarah Doyle: grace, grit, and some very good poems that deserve your attention for the right reasons.
- My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com. Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
