Rory Waterman

Jan 18, 2025 | chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Rory Waterman

Pressure is mounting to minimize the carbon footprint of chemical industry while increasing its sustainability. An argument is made that working from Green Chemistry principles during discovery-based catalysis results in effective chemistry and circumvents a need to “rediscover” chemical reactivity under sustainable conditions.

Sep 30, 2024 | yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Rory Waterman |Katrina Naomi |Douglas Dunn |Bill Broady

artsIn an interview with Richard Owain Roberts,* Bill Broady recalls the unformed stylistic ambition of his teenage years with the kind of serendipity that propelled Harold Wilson from the doorstep of no.10 as a holidaying child to his later Prime Ministerial tenure.

Sep 20, 2024 | yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Rory Waterman |Katrina Naomi |Douglas Dunn |Alan Payne

artsParta Quies Good-Night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth’s foundations stand,And heaven endures. When earth’s foundations flee,Nor sky nor land nor seaAt all is found,Content you, let them burn:It is not your concern;Sleep on, sleep sound. Parta Quies: ‘Rest is won’.

Sep 9, 2024 | yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Rory Waterman |Katrina Naomi |Douglas Dunn |Alan Payne

artsBeing PresentNot every night, but most, when I call,and you haven’t remembered what we’ve talked about,I go on loop to see the half-hour out:‘So, did you listen to the footy?’ ‘No’ –surprise in your voice – ‘no, somehow I forgot.’‘What’s been on the radio? What was dinner?’You rarely know the answers. Or the questions. Or that you’ve known the things that keep you there.

Jul 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Rory Waterman |Armen Davoudian |Hugo Williams

Many contemporary poems – tonally flat, medicinal blocks of prose – do not encourage reading aloud, so the four reworked Lincolnshire folk tales of Rory Waterman’s Come Here to This Gate are a treat. Waterman has mastered that unfashionable form, the narrative poem. Anapaests, enjambment and witty rhymes (‘Lidl’ and ‘idyll’) propel these cathartic bursts of comic strangeness.