Rory Watson

Roderick Watson (born 1943) is a Scottish poet, born in Aberdeen. He is a senior professor in English Studies at the University of Stirling.

Watson was educated at Cambridge University, where his doctoral thesis was on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. He was later to write a scholarly biography of MacDiarmid, whom he met and befriended as a student. Watson later taught at the University of Victoria in Canada.

He has published two volumes of verse over the years, and has featured in numerous periodicals and anthologies. After an early pamphlet he published his debut work "True History on the Walls" in 1976, and this was followed by the Luath Press publication "Into the Blue Wavelengths" in 2004. Upon its publication it was lauded by the late Philip Hobsbaum, who labelled Watson as a "poet of introspection and retrospection".fact|date=July 2007

References

* Watson, R (2004) "Into the Blue Wavelengths", Luath Press

External links

* [http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/staff/rory-watson/index.php University of Stirling staff information page]