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Rory Waterman

rorywaterman.com · a site they built themselves

Read them at rorywaterman.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Rory Waterman publishes poems about books & reading at rorywaterman.com, a site they built themselves. Last published March 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

12 dated posts since 20251 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per year

12025112026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 2

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 2, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
6 captured
Front page
159 KB, 41 scripts, 11 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
5 other writers in the index, 92 other sites, 8 platforms
Found
2026-09-23, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

carcanet10shortlisted128sarajevo4ledbury7gate142forte16critic163heaney20seamus26poetry1724reply481nottingham16tonight153collection1273

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches1 writer in the index

1 writer in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Matthew Paul PoetrRepublic of YorkshThe Wombwell RainbE Verse RadioHeron Books100 sites outside the indexRory Waterman
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Republic of Yorkshire, The Wombwell Rainbow, E Verse Radio, Heron Books, Hive South Yorkshire.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • Some tracking is present.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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