Neil Rollinson
{{short description|British poet (born 1960)}}
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Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West Yorkshire) is a British poet.
Life
He has published four collections of poetry, all Poetry Book Society Recommendations (Jonathan Cape UK). His last collection Talking Dead was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. He has published several pamphlets, the last of which, also titled Talking Dead was shortlisted for the Michael Marks award. He was writer in residence at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage for two years and has since been teaching creative writing at Bath Spa University.
He was 2007 writer-in-residence at Manchester's Centre For New Writing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=195616&in_page_id=251 |title = Five questions for . . . Neil Rollinson | Metro.co.uk |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804195734/http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=195616&in_page_id=251 |archive-date=4 August 2012 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/contributors.php?issue=1 |title=The Manchester Review |access-date=2009-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210083424/http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/contributors.php?issue=1 |archive-date=2008-12-10 |url-status=dead }}
He tutors occasionally at the Arvon Centre.{{Cite web |url=http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p121s259.html |title=Arvon Foundation | Tutor |access-date=2009-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820052745/http://arvonfoundation.org/p121s259.html |archive-date=2008-08-20 |url-status=dead }} and works regularly with mentees on poetry projects.
Awards
- 1997 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition
- Royal Literary Fund Fellow{{Cite web |url=http://www.rlf.org.uk/FELLOWSHIPSCHEME/profile.cfm?fellow=85&menu=3 |title=The Royal Literary Fund |access-date=2009-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716143814/http://www.rlf.org.uk/FELLOWSHIPSCHEME/profile.cfm?fellow=85&menu=3 |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead }}
- 2005 Cholmondeley Award
- 2015 Shortlist: Costa Poetry Prize.
Works
- {{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/29/featuresreviews.guardianreview23| title=Hubris| work=The Guardian| date=29 September 2007 | location=London | accessdate=20 May 2010}}
- {{cite web| url=http://www.thepoem.co.uk/poems/rollinson.htm| title=Constellations; French| work=The Poem| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231145701/http://www.thepoem.co.uk/poems/rollinson.htm| archivedate=2008-12-31}}
- {{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-sunday-poem-no-13-neil-rollinson-1073798.html| title=The Sunday Poem: No 13 GIANT PUFFBALLS| date=28 February 1999| work=The Independence | location=London | first=Ruth | last=Padel | accessdate=20 May 2010}}
- [http://pages.infinit.net/noxoculi/rollinson.html "Constellations"; "Entropy", Nox Oculis]
- [http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/poetry/sample/sample.pdf "The Ecstasy of St Saviours Avenue"]
- {{cite book| title=A Spillage of Mercury | publisher=J. Cape| year=1996| isbn=978-0-224-04008-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=Gridlines| publisher=Two Rivers Press| year=2000| isbn=978-1-901677-29-4 }}
- {{cite book| title=Spanish Fly | publisher=Cape Poetry| year=2001| isbn=978-0-224-06207-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=Menage a Trois| others=Illustrator Louise Clarke| year=2002| isbn=978-0-9542501-0-2 }} chapbook
- {{cite book| title=Demolition | publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=2007| isbn=978-0-224-08171-9 }}
- {{cite book| title=Talking Dead | publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=2015|isbn=978-0-22409-729-1 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.neilrollinson.com/ "Author's website"]
- [http://www.pomegranate.me.uk/interview502.html "Interview: Neil Rollinson", Pomegranate, Issue 5]
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