Andrew Waterhouse

Andrew Waterhouse (27 November 1958 Lincolnshire - 20 October 2001) was a British poet, and musician.^[1]

Life

He grew up in Scarborough and moved to Gainsborough were his parents ran the local Conservative Club, the river allotments and paved streets which feature in his early poetry are all still where he would have remembered them, and was educated at Gainsborough Grammar School. He studied at Newcastle University, and Wye College, taking an MSc. in environmental science. He lectured at Kirkley Hall Agricultural College. Drawing on his background in this semi industrial town his early poetry reflects on the town and his family and is evocative of the period (1970s) and the place.

He wrote for green journals, and took part in the Trees For Life programme for world reforestation.

An annual award in his name is made by the Northern Writers'.^[2]

Awards

• 2000 Forward Prize for Best First Collection ^[3]
• 2000 Northern Writers' Award

Works

• "Butterfly On Stained Glass", The Rialto (poetry magazine)
• "Looking for the Comet", The Rialto (poetry magazine)

• Need-fire. Bay Press. 1996. ISBN 978-1-899462-08-7. 
• Burning your brother's guitar. Windhover Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-900447-19-5. 
• In. The Rialto. ISBN 978-0-9527444-1-2. The Rialto (poetry magazine)
• 2nd. The Rialto. 2002. ISBN 978-0-9527444-4-3.  The Rialto (poetry magazine)

Anthologies

• W. N. Herbert, ed. (2006). Bad shaman blues. Bloodaxe. ISBN 978-1-85224-728-7. 
• Neil Astley, ed. (2004). Being alive. Bloodaxe. ISBN 978-1-85224-675-4. 

References

External links

• The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English, Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland