Rory Waterman's examination of Lincolnshire's folklore, tracing how legends like Yallery Brown and the Lincoln Imp have evolved over time through storytelling, embellishment, and cultural memory.

My investigation into alleged plagiarism was undertaken seriously – journalistic enquiries should not be a matter for Scotland Yard, writes THE reporter Jack Grove

Tice says the complaint related to a debate on Israeli influence and whether he should have referenced his register of interests.

I’ve written this very hastily, but there are a few things I’d like to get off my chest and the situation seems to be evolving quickly. Pleze ekscus eny leters getin in the rong plaices etc.

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Online Workshop: Writing Ballads with Rory Waterman – Zoom, Mon 20 Jul 2026 - Writing Ballads Ballads are tightly rhymed poems that are great fun to write, thematically and tonally versatile, and oft...

Did you know that until “well into the twentieth century” there was a “widespread belief that hedgehogs sucked the milk from cows”, often draining several

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Devils in the Details - An Evening of Lincolnshire Folklore today.

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Devils in the Details - An Evening of Lincolnshire Folklore today.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Small Birds Singing by Matthew Welton, hosted by Sam Riviere. The event will feature readings and discussion, and audience members will have the opportunity ...

I co-edit New Walk Editions, a poetry pamphlet publisher, with my friend Nick Everett.

Online Workshop: Writing Ballads with Rory Waterman – Zoom, Mon 20 Jul 2026 - Writing Ballads Ballads are tightly rhymed poems that are great fun to write, thematically and tonally versatile, and oft...

I included thirty images in my new book, Devils in the Details, which explores folk tales, where they came from, and the places, events and people associated with them in my home county of Lincolnshir...

“I’ll be here for a while yet. I won’t be long”, writes John Fuller in “Ear Worm”, one of the final poems in the eighty-nine-year-old’s twenty-fifth

In the run-up to the May publication of my new book, Devils in the Details: On Location with Folk Tales in England’s Forgotten County, which can now be ordered from Five Leaves Publications for immedi...

Residents from both political parties in Social Circle, Georgia, are rejecting a proposed plan by the Department of Homeland Security to transform an empty warehouse into a detention centre.

Come Here to This Gate, Rory Waterman's fourth collection, is his most candid and unexpected, personal, brash, hilarious, and wide-ranging. The book is in th...

A while ago, when his next (and, as it turned out, last) collection was due to be published by Broken Sleep Books, I was commissioned to write an essay about the poet Geoff Hattersley (1956-2024) for ...

In 2022, I was a visiting writer at Baylor University, Texas. It was an exceptional experience - or, rather, and exceptional set of disparate experiences. This article juxtaposes two of them.

Join Rory Waterman on thirteen quests into Lincolnshire's landscape in search of the origins and legacies of the folk tales of England's forgotten county.

Rory Waterman will read extracts from his two recent books: Devils in the Details (2026), which explores the locations, histories and legacies of folk tales in Lincolnshire, and the anthology Lincolns...