Rory Waterman Reading - Nottingham Poetry Society
Nottingham Poetry Society is pleased to announce that our first reading of 2022 will be by the highly esteemed poet Rory Waterman.
Date – Saturday 29th January 2022
Time – 1pm-3pm
Venue – Canalhouse Nottingham - 48-52 Canal Street, Nottingham NG1 7EH
Cost - £5 (free for Nottingham Poetry Society members)
Rory Waterman’s full-length collections, all published by Carcanet, are: Tonight the Summer’s Over (2013), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Award; Sarajevo Roses (2017), which was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize for Second Collections; and Sweet Nothings (2020). He is also a critic for the TLS, PN Review and other publications, and has published several books on modern and contemporary poetry. He co-edits New Walk Editions. Rory was born in Belfast in 1981, and grew up mainly in Lincolnshire. Since 2012, he has worked at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature and leads the MA in Creative Writing.
Great, thanks for the info, Teresa.