Rory Waterman (born in Belfast, 1981) is a poet, critic, editor and academic resident in Nottingham, England.
[1] Waterman lived in Coleraine, County Londonderry until the age of two, then grew up mainly in Nocton, Lincolnshire with his mother and grandmother, then in Metheringham, with long stays in Coleraine in Northern Ireland from the age of 10, to see his father.
In addition to his four collections with Carcanet, his poems have appeared in the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and various other magazines and newspapers, as well as a number of anthologies, including The Best British Poetry and The Forward Book of Poetry.
The splendidly titled Brexit Day on the Balmoral Estate is a fine widening out of subject matter.'
The TLS, reviewing his second book, commended him for a 'seriousness of form and subject uncommon among his generation', and describes his work as 'subversive – and substantial.