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Rory Waterman is a poet with four collections published by Carcanet Press. He is also a literary critic for the TLS, PN Review and other publications, co-editor of New Walk Editions, and an academic.
Poetry
Rory’s fourth collection, Come Here to This Gate, will be published by Carcanet in April 2024. His three previous collections are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (Carcanet, 2013), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize in 2014; Sarajevo Roses (Carcanet, 2017), shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize 2019; and Sweet Nothings (2020). He has also published the pamphlets Brexit Day on the Balmoral Estate (Rack, 2017) and Five Poems (Clutag, 2017). His poems have been published in the Guardian, Financial Times, TLS, Poetry, Poetry Review, PN Review, New Statesman, and elsewhere, as well as in many anthologies.
Editing and Criticism
Rory is also an editor and a critic. He co-runs the poetry pamphlet publisher (and former literary magazine) New Walk, and writes regularly for the TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, and other publications. He has also written and edited several prose books, mostly about (and/or containing) twentieth-century or contemporary poetry, including Wendy Cope (LUP, 2021), Poets of the Second World War (LUP, 2016), W. H. Davies, the True Traveller: A Reader (Fyfield, 2015) and Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas and Charles Causley (Routledge, 2014).
Bio notes
LONG (130 words)
Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, and grew up mainly in Lincolnshire. His full-length collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses (2017), which was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize for Second Collections; Sweet Nothings (2020); and Come Here to This Gate (2024). He is also a critic for the TLS, PN Review and other publications, and has published several books on modern and contemporary poetry. He co-edits New Walk Editions. Since 2012, he has worked at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature and leads the MA in Creative Writing. He lives in Nottingham.
SHORT (50 words)
Rory Waterman’s collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013; PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award); Sarajevo Roses (2017; shortlisted for Ledbury Forte Prize); Sweet Nothings (2020); and Come Here to This Gate (2024). He is on the English and Creative Writing faculty at NTU.
VERY SHORT (13 words)
Rory Waterman’s most recent collection is Come Here to This Gate (Carcanet, 2024).
Contact
Rory is available for readings, interviews, etc. Please see the ‘Contact’ page for email, or link with him on social media.
Instagram: rory_waterman
Twitter: @rorywaterman
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Photo above by Thomas Curtis, 2019. www.thomascurtisphotography.com. Photo below by Allan Wilkinson, 2023.
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