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Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West Yorkshire) is a British poet.
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Neil Rollinson (born 1960 West Yorkshire) is a British poet.
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.
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Pascale Petit, is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India.
Jo Shapcott FRSL is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award.
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