Neil Rollinson

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Name Neil Rollinson Education Newcastle University		Role Poet

Books A spillage of mercury, Spanish fly, Demolition, Gridlines, Amphibians

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Neil Rollinson (born 1960 Yorkshire) is a British poet.

Life

He studied at Newcastle University, but then moved to London.

He was writer in residence at Wordworth’s Dove Cottage. He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.

He tutors at the Arvon Centre.

Awards

1997 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition

Royal Literary Fund Fellow

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.

References

Neil Rollinson Wikipedia

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