Neil Rollinson Explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

He tutors occasionally at the Arvon Centre.^[3] and works regularly with mentees on poetry projects.

Awards

• 1997 First Prize, UK National Poetry Competition
• Royal Literary Fund Fellow^[4]
• 2005 Cholmondeley Award
• 2015 Shortlist: Costa Poetry Prize.

Works

• News: Hubris. The Guardian. 29 September 2007 . London . 20 May 2010.
• Web site: Constellations; French. The Poem. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081231145701/http://www.thepoem.co.uk/poems/rollinson.htm. 2008-12-31.
• News: The Sunday Poem: No 13 GIANT PUFFBALLS. 28 February 1999. The Independence . London . Ruth . Padel . 20 May 2010.
• "Constellations"; "Entropy", Nox Oculis
• "The Ecstasy of St Saviours Avenue"
• Book: A Spillage of Mercury . J. Cape. 1996. 978-0-224-04008-2 .
• Book: Gridlines. Two Rivers Press. 2000. 978-1-901677-29-4 .
• Book: Spanish Fly . Cape Poetry. 2001. 978-0-224-06207-7 .
• Book: Menage a Trois. Illustrator Louise Clarke. 2002. 978-0-9542501-0-2 . chapbook
• Book: Demolition . Jonathan Cape. 2007. 978-0-224-08171-9 .
• Book: Talking Dead . Jonathan Cape. 2015. 978-0-22409-729-1 .

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Five questions for . . . Neil Rollinson | Metro.co.uk . https://archive.today/20120804195734/http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=195616&in_page_id=251 . 4 August 2012 . dead.
2. Web site: The Manchester Review . 2009-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081210083424/http://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/contributors.php?issue=1 . 2008-12-10 . dead .
3. Web site: Arvon Foundation | Tutor . 2009-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080820052745/http://arvonfoundation.org/p121s259.html . 2008-08-20 . dead .
4. Web site: The Royal Literary Fund . 2009-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716143814/http://www.rlf.org.uk/FELLOWSHIPSCHEME/profile.cfm?fellow=85&menu=3 . 2011-07-16 . dead .