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Name
  
Rory Waterman


Role
  
Poet

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Books
  
Tonight the Summer's Over, Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas and Charles Causley

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

Contents

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Early life

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

Career

Waterman 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.

In August 2015, Waterman was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.

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)
  • References

    Rory Waterman Wikipedia