Neil Rollinson
Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West Yorkshire) is a British poet.
Life
He studied at Newcastle University, but then moved to London.[1][2]
He was writer in residence at Wordworth’s Dove Cottage. He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.[3][4]
He tutors at the Arvon Centre.[5]
Awards
- 1997 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition
- Royal Literary Fund Fellow[6]
- 2005 Cholmondeley Award
Works
- "Hubris". The Guardian. London. 29 September 2007. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- "Constellations; French". The Poem.
- Padel, Ruth (28 February 1999). "The Sunday Poem: No 13 GIANT PUFFBALLS". The Independence. London. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- "Constellations"; "Entropy", Nox Oculis
- "The Ecstasy of St Saviours Avenue"
- A Spillage of Mercury. J. Cape. 1996. ISBN 978-0-224-04008-2.
- Gridlines. Two Rivers Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-901677-29-4.
- Spanish Fly. Cape Poetry. 2001. ISBN 978-0-224-06207-7.
- Menage a Trois. Illustrator Louise Clarke. 2002. ISBN 978-0-9542501-0-2. chapbook
- Demolition. Jonathan Cape. 2007. ISBN 978-0-224-08171-9.
Reviews
With his first two collections, A Spillage of Mercury (1996) and Spanish Fly (2001), Neil Rollinson began creating a niche for himself as a poet of unashamed masculinity. Demolition continues the project: there are poems here on many conventionally ‘male’ topics: football (of course), a fighter plane, betting (dignified by association with chaos theory – Rollinson has a penchant for slipping in a smidgeon of science), cricket, computers, the death of his father (so often a fertile topic for male poets), and above all, sex.[7]
References
- ↑ http://www.newcut.org/eventdetails.php?progid=977
- ↑ http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/writingpoetry/?id=713
- ↑ http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=195616&in_page_id=251
- ↑ http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/contributors.php?issue=1
- ↑ http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p121s259.html
- ↑ http://www.rlf.org.uk/FELLOWSHIPSCHEME/profile.cfm?fellow=85&menu=3
- ↑ "April Warman reviews Demolition by Neil Rollinson", Poetry Matters
External links
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