Neil Rollinson
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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 AwardCholmondeley AwardThe Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the late Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966...
Works
chapbook
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.