Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman (born in Belfast, 1981) is a poet resident in England.

He was born in Belfast and grew up in Nocton, Lincolnshire, before taking degrees at the University of Leicester and Durham University. He is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University and co-edits the literary and arts magazine New Walk. He is also a critic and reviewer, and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and other publications. His poetry has been shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Prize and has been made a PBS Recommendation.

Books

Poetry

Tonight the Summer's Over (Carcanet Press, 2013) - Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for Seamus Heaney Prize 2014

Criticism

Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas and Charles Causley (Ashgate, 2014)

Edited by

Something Happens, Sometimes Here: Contemporary Lincolnshire Poets (Five Leaves, 2015)

W. H. Davies, The True Traveller: A Reader (Carcanet/Fyfield Books, 2015)

External links

• Author website
• Carcanet Press author page
• Staff profile at Nottingham Trent University