Endless Present

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, grew up in Lincolnshire, and lives in Nottingham. He is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Nottingham Trent University. His most recent poetry collection is Come Here to This Gate (Carcanet, 2024) and his others, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013), which was a PBS Recommendation and was shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award, Sarajevo Roses (2017), shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize, and Sweet Nothings (2020). He has also published and edited several critical books on poetry, and co-edits poetry pamphlet publisher New Walk Editions.