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Dr Rory Waterman is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, specialising in modern and contemporary literature, with a primary focus on poetry. Much of his recent research has centred on belonging and estrangement in late twentieth-century British poetry. In 2015, he published a monograph on Belonging and Estrangement in the Poetry of Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas and Charles Causley through Ashgate. He has also edited a collection of the autobiographical writing and poetry of so-called “tramp-poet” W.H. Davies in W.H. Davies, The True Traveller: A Reader (Carcanet, 2015). These themes are also present in his poetry. Commending Dr Waterman's most recent pamphlet, Brexit Day on the Balmoral Estate (Rack Press, 2017) in the Manchester Review, Ian Pople explains that, ‘Like a lot of travel writing – and travel poetry, in particular – the poems are journeys around the self as much as they are around the landscape’. Dr Waterman also writes regular criticism for the TLS and other publications, and co-edits the international literary journal New Walk. His debut poetry collection, Tonight the Summer's Over (Carcanet, 2013), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize 2014.
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