Harbour othman biography of rory

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Rory Waterman is a poet, editor, critic and academic.

Harbour othman biography of rory

His first poetry collection, Tonight the Summer’s Over, was published by Carcanet in November and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He also co-edits New Walk, an international print magazine for poetry and the arts, and he writes regularly for various publications such as the TLS and PN Review.

Rory was born in Belfast, but grew up in rural Lincolnshire. He studied English at the University of Leicester and at Durham University, returning to the former after a few years in order to undertake a PhD in twentieth-century poetry.

He is now a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University.

Creative Work

Visiting Grandpa

First published in The Bow-wow Shop,

He gave her a photo of great-grandma Alice
and a small box of medals he’d won in the War.
She tried on his glasses and giggled, and listened
to the clicks of his pacemaker, c