Rory Waterman
@RoryWaterman
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Poet - COME HERE TO THIS GATE @carcanet 2024. Academic. Critic. Leads @lincsfolk. Ed @newwalkmagazine. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Yellerbelly exiled in Notts
Joined March 2009
This happened today, and I was very happy about it. And I got to see some of my students graduate, and clapped by paws raw. I’m very grateful that anyone has faith in me.
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Two of my ex-colleagues, & favourite and most brilliant ever colleagues at that, are running this workshop at Malt Cross, Nottingham in August. I’d love to go, but will be away. You should, if you’ll be in Notty on 17/8. Absolutely anyone will be welcome, & made to feel it.
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RT @LincsFolk: Some of the many faces of Anna Milon. At the end of the month, this project’s funding runs out, and Anna - who has been the….
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If a poem becomes famous & is shortlisted for a prize, & that poem obviously reimagines the once famous 'you have two cows' analogy with family, but makes no reference to that, & almost nobody seems aware it is fundamentally unoriginal, do you think that matters? Or not at all?.
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RT @newwalkmagazine: 'These are poems to dwell in.'. A fine review by Emma Lee of D.A. Prince's new New Walk Editions pamphlet, Continuous….
newwalkmagazine.bigcartel.com
Two superb poetry pamphlets published every six months.
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Excellent choice. I regularly have first-year undergraduates discuss ‘A Rose Tree’ from this very fine collection: a poem that is at once simple and complex.
The late Fleur Adcock's 2010 poetry collection #DragonTalk will be discussed on A Good Read today, 14 July, chosen by host @HarriettSG. Harriett is joined by Desiree Akhavan & @rosiewilby. Tune in to @BBCRadio4 📻 at 3pm, or listen later via @BBCSounds.
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Join me for an online The Poetry Business workshop about writing poems in dialogue with photographs or visual art. 27 August, 11am, online!.
poetrybusiness.co.uk
Join our expert tutors as they help you put pen to paper in a 90 minute online session filled with tailored writing exercises and discussion.
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RT @TheTLS: 'Dry wistfulness, strong musicality and obsessions with both little lost moments and unfathomably big pictures are watermarks i….
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Maurice Riordan is seventy-two and has published five collections of poems, all since he hit his forties – a careful, steady output reflected in the
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I'm giving a poetry reading, and leading a short workshop, in CHELTENHAM tomorrow (Sunday) evening. Open mic, too. I'd love to see you there. Info:.
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A new poem by Alan Jenkins, one of the finest poets we have, that is both timely and moving:. This is on the website of Free Bloody birds, the new little (print) magazine he edits with Declan Ryan. The first issue is packed with excellent writing.
freebloodybirds.com
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My review of Maurice Riordan's Selected Poems in the TLS:.
the-tls.com
Maurice Riordan is seventy-two and has published five collections of poems, all since he hit his forties – a careful, steady output reflected in the
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Men's semi-final at @Wimbledon: world no.1 vs the male player who has won more majors than any other. Centre Court is 2/3 empty, and the posh-person box is emptier still. And hundreds of thousands of people who can't afford semi-final tickets to Wimbledon would LOVE to be there.
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Have a look at the Kickstarter for the New Nottingham Journal, a significant new publication - wherever you are - which will launch in October this year. I'm very glad to be on the board. The editor, Andrew Tucker, is developing something very special.
kickstarter.com
Support the rebel city's new journal of writing: top quality short fiction, slow journalism and poetry from around the world.
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NTU @TrentUni has made me a professor. Twenty-seven years ago, when I received four C grades at GCSE, my mum (pictured, this afternoon) tells me she didn’t expect this sort of thing to happen.
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I'm very much looking forward to judging the Buzzwords Poetry Competition this year. Submission deadline 30 August. I'll read everything. See below for guidelines, etc.
gloswriters.org.uk
Sole Judge: Â Rory Waterman
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RT @newwalkmagazine: We're delighted by this from Tim Relf in The Bookseller:. 'D.A. Prince's Continuous Present and Richie McCaffery's Ska….
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I'm reading from my newest @Carcanet collection in CHELTENHAM on Sunday 13 July. At the Exmouth Arms, for Buzzwords. I'll also lead a workshop. Workshop: 7pm.Reading: 8pm .Open mic too!. I'd love to see you there, whoever you might be.
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