Rory Waterman

Rory Waterman is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University. He leads the AHRC-funded project ‘Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures’ (2024-5), publishes extensively on modern poetry, writes regularly for publications such as the TLS, co-edits the poetry publisher New Walk Editions, and is the author of four poetry collections published by Carcanet Press.

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Dr Waterman is a widely-published poet and critic. His four full-length poetry collections, all published by Carcanet Press, are: Tonight the Summer's Over (2013), Sarajevo Roses (2017) , Sweet Nothings (2020), and Come Here to This Gate (2024). His first was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award, and he was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize in 2019. He has also published three monographs on modern and contemporary poetry, a volume of essays on the life and work of the 'tramp-poet' W. H. Davies (1871-1940), and several other edited volumes and anthologies. In 2020-21, Dr Waterman co-led the AHRC-funded project 'Poets Respond to Covid-19', establishing partnerships with numerous arts organisations and UNESCO Cities of Literature. From 2024-25, he led the AHRC-funded project 'Lincolnshire Folk Tales: Origins, Legacies, Connections, Futures'. He also founded and co-edits the poetry publisher New Walk Editions, which has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards in two categories, and previously founded and edited New Walk magazine, an international magazine for poetry and the arts.