Neil Rollinson

Neil Rollinson (born 1960 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. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/sep/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview23. Retrieved 20 May 2010. 
• "Constellations; French". The Poem. http://www.thepoem.co.uk/poems/rollinson.htm. 
• Padel, Ruth (28 February 1999). "The Sunday Poem: No 13 GIANT PUFFBALLS". The Independence (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-sunday-poem-no-13-neil-rollinson-1073798.html. Retrieved 20 May 2010. 
• "Constellations"; "Entropy", Nox Oculis
• "The Ecstasy of St Saviours Avenue"

• A Spillage of Mercury. J. Cape. 1996. ISBN 9780224040082. 
• Gridlines. Two Rivers Press. 2000. ISBN 9781901677294. 
• Spanish Fly. Cape Poetry. 2001. ISBN 9780224062077. 
• Menage a Trois. Illustrator Louise Clarke. 2002. ISBN 9780954250102.  chapbook
• Demolition. Jonathan Cape. 2007. ISBN 9780224081719. 

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

1. ^ http://www.newcut.org/eventdetails.php?progid=977
2. ^ http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/writingpoetry/?id=713
3. ^ http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=195616&in_page_id=251
4. ^ http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/contributors.php?issue=1
5. ^ http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p121s259.html
6. ^ http://www.rlf.org.uk/FELLOWSHIPSCHEME/profile.cfm?fellow=85&menu=3
7. ^ "April Warman reviews Demolition by Neil Rollinson", Poetry Matters

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Interview: Neil Rollinson", Pomegranate, Issue 5

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