Roderick Watson

Roderick 'Rory' Watson (b. 1943 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish poet as well as a senior professor in English Studies at the University of Stirling.[1] Watson taught at the University of Victoria in Canada and was educated at Cambrige University where his doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Hugh Macdiarmid and he was later to write a scholarly biography of Macdiarmid, whom he met and befriended as a student. He has published slim volumes of verse over the years and has featured in numerous periodicals and anthologies. After an early pamphlet he published his first major debut work 'True History on the Walls' in 1976 and this was followed by the Luath Press publication 'Into the Blue Wavelengths' in 2004. Upon its publication it was lauded by the late Philip HobsbaumLink title who labelled Watson as a 'poet of introspection and retrospection'