Andrew Waterhouse

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| birth_date = {{start-date|27 November 1958}}

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Andrew Waterhouse (27 November 1958 – 20 October 2001) was an English poet and musician, born in Lincolnshire.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/nov/07/guardianobituaries.books|title=Andrew Waterhouse: Poet who unravelled life's paradoxes with a vivid and uncluttered imagination|first=Sean|last=O'Brien|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=7 November 2001|accessdate=8 March 2016}}

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 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 city 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2018}}

On 20 October 2001 he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/jan/03/artsandhumanities.highereducation |title=Death of a poet |website=The Guardian|date=2 January 2002 |accessdate=18 October 2018}}

New Writing North 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 Keith Morris.{{Cite web|last=Whetstone|first=David|date=2015-06-02|title=Legacy of talented hit-and-run musicians Keith Morris and Joe Scurfield lives on|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/legacy-talented-hit-and-run-musicians-keith-9368752|access-date=2020-11-14|website=ChronicleLive|language=en}}

An annual award in his name is made by the Northern Writers.{{cite web|url=http://www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/news/Northern_Writers_Awards_Winners |title=Northern Writers Awards Winners |work=Literature North East |accessdate=11 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025115117/http://www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/news/Northern_Writers_Awards_Winners |archivedate=25 October 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://northernwritersawards.com/past-winners/winners-by-year/ |title=Winners by year |website=northernwritersawards.com |accessdate=10 October 2018 |archive-date=19 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019003458/http://northernwritersawards.com/past-winners/winners-by-year/ |url-status=dead }}

Awards

2000 Forward Prize for Best First Collection{{cite book|title=International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopedia|author1=McIntyre, D.|author2=International Biographical Centre|date=2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780948875595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbjbBSNoKdgC|page=578}}
2000 Northern Writers' Award

Works

"Butterfly on Stained Glass", The Rialto (poetry magazine)
"Looking for the Comet", The Rialto
{{cite book| title=Need-fire| publisher=Bay Press| year=2001| isbn=978-1-899462-08-7 }}
{{cite book| title=Burning your brother's guitar| publisher=Windhover Press| year=1998| isbn=978-1-900447-19-5 }}
{{cite book| title=In | year=2000| publisher=The Rialto| isbn=978-0-9527444-1-2 }} The Rialto
{{cite book| title=2nd| publisher=The Rialto| year=2002| isbn=978-0-9527444-4-3 }} The Rialto

=Anthologies=

{{cite book| title=Bad shaman blues| editor=W. N. Herbert| publisher=Bloodaxe| year=2006| isbn=978-1-85224-728-7 }}
{{cite book| title=Being alive| editor=Neil Astley| publisher=Bloodaxe| year=2004| isbn=978-1-85224-675-4 }}