Rory Waterman

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

Waterman was born in Belfast and grew up in Nocton, Lincolnshire with his mother and grandmother, before taking degrees at the University of Leicester and Durham University.

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, and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and other publications. 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 two collections, 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. 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 has commended him for a 'seriousness of form and subject uncommon among his generation', and describes his work as 'subversive – and substantial.' His critical essays have appeared in Essays in Criticism, English, Poetry Review, PN Review, and elsewhere.

Poetry

• Sarajevo Roses (Carcanet Press, 2017)
• 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)