Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman’s collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013), a PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses (2017), shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize; and Sweet Nothings (2020). He is also a critic for the TLS, PN Review and elsewhere, and has published several books on modern poetry. He co-edits New Walk Editions. Rory was born in Belfast in 1981, and grew up mainly in Lincolnshire. Since 2012, he has worked at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Associate Professor of Modern Literature and leads the MA in Creative Writing. Website: www.rorywaterman.com