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Andrew Waterman (poet)

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Andrew Waterman (1940–2022)[1] was an English poet.

Biography

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Born in London, Waterman grew up in Woodside and Croydon, and at the age of eleven won a scholarship to the Trinity School of John Whitgift. He left before sitting his A levels, and after six years of clerical and manual jobs in London and Jersey began studying English at the University of Leicester as a mature student, graduating in 1966. With the help of poet G. S. Fraser, Waterman was then awarded funding to conduct postgraduate research at Worcester College, Oxford, although he stayed there only briefly and did not graduate.[2] From 1968 to 1997, he lectured in English Literature at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and in 1998 retired to Norfolk.[3] In "Ulsterectomy", Waterman commented on how writers who happened to have been born in Northern Ireland are claimed for that nationality, ignoring their other cultural influences.[4] He received a Cholmondeley Award for poets. From 1990, he was registered blind, though in practice was partially sighted.[5] His son is the poet Rory Waterman.

Books

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Poetry

  • Living Room (Marvell Press, 1974)
  • From the Other Country (Carcanet Press, 1977)
  • Over the Wall (Carcanet, 1980)
  • The Poetry of Chess (ed.) (Anvil Press Poetry, 1981)
  • Out for the Elements (Carcanet, 1981)
  • Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1986)
  • In the Planetarium (Carcanet, 1990)
  • The End of the Pier Show (Carcanet, 1995)
  • Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2000)
  • The Captain's Swallow (Carcanet, 2007)
  • By the River Wensum (Shoestring Press, 2014)

Anthologies including Andrew Waterman

Waterman has also written a considerable amount of critical prose.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Moramarco, Fred S.; Zolynas, Al (2004). The Poetry of Men's Lives: An International Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820326498. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  2. ^ Andrew Waterman, 'Monica Jones's Leicester', 25 November 2011. andrewwaterman.co.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Carcanet Press – Andrew Waterman". Andrewwaterman.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  4. ^ Hutton, Clare; Walsh, Patrick (23 June 2011). The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V: The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-924911-4. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Welcome to nginx!". Archived from the original on 11 November 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
  6. ^ "Andrew Waterman". Andrewwaterman.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
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