Neil Rollinson

Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West 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. 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.^[7]

References

External links

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