poetry mini interviews

How important is music to your poetry? It depends what you mean. Musicality is very important to my poems – but I don’t want to my answer t...

How does your work first enter the world? Do you have a social group or writers group that you work ideas and poems with? I always share al...

What other poetry books have you been reading lately? I write a lot of reviews, and a lot of my poetry reading has been taken up by that in...

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t? Well, a poem can’t be a protest song: the best poems have a tension at their...

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1981, and lives in Nottingham, England, where he is on the English faculty at Nottingham Tr...