Andrew Waterhouse (27 November 1958 - 20 October 2001) was an English

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and musician, born in

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Life

Andrew Waterhouse grew up in Scarborough and moved to Gainsborough, where 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

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, and

Wye College bio sciences -> social sciences -> business school Pictures of OLT, Old Hall,Cloister, Parlour --> The College of St Gregory and St Martin at Wye, commonly known as Wye College, was an education and research institution in the village of Wye ...

, 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 olive brown-grey journals, and took part in the Trees For Life programme for world reforestation. On 20 October 2001 he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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commissioned four poets to commemorate Waterhouse after his death, including "Song for the Crossing" by Sean O'Brien. The poems were set to music by Newcastle-based composer and musician

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. An annual award in his name is made by the Northern Writers.

Awards

* 2000

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for Best First Collection * 2000 Northern Writers' Award

Works

* "Butterfly on Stained Glass", ''The Rialto'' (poetry magazine) * "Looking for the Comet", ''The Rialto'' * * * ''The Rialto'' * ''The Rialto''

Anthologies

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Poems

* Climbing My Grandfather

References

External links

Waterhouse poem ''Climbing My Grandfather''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Waterhouse, Andrew 1958 births 2001 deaths British male poets 20th-century British poets 20th-century British male writers Alumni of Wye College