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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.

Contents

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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