Rory Waterman has published four poetry collections with Carcanet, most recently Come Here to This Gate (2024). His accolades include a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisting for a Seamus Heaney Award (Tonight the Summer’s Over, 2013), and a shortlisting for the Ledbury Forte Prize (Sarajevo Roses, 2017). He is a regular critic for the press, a co-editor at New Walk Editions, and Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University.