Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman (born in Belfast, 1981) is a poet, critic, editor and academic resident in Nottingham, England.[1]

For the American chemist, see Rory Waterman (chemist).

Early life

Waterman grew up mainly in a lodge house to an estate near Nocton, Lincolnshire with his mother and grandmother, then in a council house in Metheringham, with long stays in Coleraine in Northern Ireland from the age of 10, to see his father.[2] He then took degrees in English at the University of Leicester and Durham University.

Career

Waterman is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, and co-edits the poetry pamphlet press New Walk Editions, with Nick Everett at the University of Leicester. He is also a critic and reviewer, writing regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, and other publications, and the author of several books of literary criticism. His poetry has been shortlisted for a Ledbury Forte Prize and a Seamus Heaney Prize, and has been made a PBS Recommendation.

In addition to his three collections with Carcanet, his poems have appeared in the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and various other magazines and newspapers, as well as a number of anthologies, including The Best British Poetry and The Forward Book of Poetry.[3][4] The Manchester Review wrote that 'Rory Waterman’s first complete collection, Tonight the Summer’s Over was much lauded, seen as "the best first collection for the past couple of years" and was a PBS recommendation. The splendidly titled Brexit Day on the Balmoral Estate is a fine widening out of subject matter.' The TLS, reviewing his second book, commended him for a 'seriousness of form and subject uncommon among his generation', and describes his work as 'subversive – and substantial.'[5] His critical essays have appeared in Essays in Criticism, English, Poetry Review, PN Review, and elsewhere.

Books

Poetry
  • Sweet Nothings (Carcanet Press, 2020)
  • Sarajevo Roses (Carcanet Press, 2017) - shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize 2019
  • Brexit Day on the Balmoral Estate (Rack Press, 2017) - pamphlet
  • Tonight the Summer's Over (Carcanet Press, 2013) - Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for Seamus Heaney Prize 2014

Criticism
  • Poets of the Second World War (Northcote House, 2016)
  • 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)

References
  1. Carcanet author page http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=986
  2. Rainbow, The Wombwell (2020-07-13). "Wombwell Rainbow Book Interviews: Rory Waterman and "Sweet Nothings"". The Wombwell Rainbow. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. Bennetts, Russell (2015). Poets for Corbyn (PDF). Pendant Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9928034-5-2.
  4. Bennetts, Russell (25 August 2015). "Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  5. https://rorywaterman.com/tonight-the-summers-over/
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