Rory Waterman, poet, critic and editor will read from his poems at our regular monthly meeting at 8 pm on Tuesday 21st November at The Royal Wells Hotel in Tunbridge Wells.
Rory Waterman is a poet with three collections published by Carcanet Press. Rory’s third full-length collection, Sweet Nothings, was published by Carcanet in 2020. A fourth is forthcoming in April 2024. He is also a literary critic for the TLS, PN Review and other publications, co-editor of New Walk Editions, and an academic. Rory was born in Belfast in 1981, and grew up mainly in Lincolnshire, in the East Midlands of England. 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. He lives in Nottingham.
The evening will begin with an Open Mic session for poems of 40 lines or fewer. The meeting is open to non-members on payment of £3 at the door.
The Kent & Sussex Poetry Society 