Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman’s 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; and Sweet Nothings (2020). He is also a critic for the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, and other publications, and has published several books on modern and contemporary poetry. He co-edits New Walk Editions.

Waterman was born in Ireland, and grew up mainly in Lincolnshire, in the East Midlands of England. Since 2012, he has worked at Nottingham Trent University, where he teaches English and leads the MA programme in Creative Writing. He lives in Nottingham, England.