Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast and grew up mostly in rural Lincolnshire. He has written two books on twentieth-century poetry and is a critic for various publications, and his poems have appeared in the TLS, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011), Poetry Review, New Statesman, Guardian, Financial Times, PN Review and elsewhere. He teaches English at Nottingham Trent University. Tonight the Summer’s Over, his first collection, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. He also co-edits New Walk poetry and arts magazine.