Rowland Molony

Rowland Molony (born 1946) is a British poet and novelist.

Life

Molony graduated from St John's Catholic Comprehensive School Gravesend, Kent, in 1962,^[1] and joined the RAF. He spent several years in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where he married the artist Elizabeth Baxendale, and has two daughters. He now lives in Beer, Devon.

He is a teacher and lecturer. His love for poetry and the teaching of English Literature led to him writing his first book for children, After the Death of Alice Bennett.

He publishes occasional articles on literary and educational matters. He has published one collection of poems, Frogs and Co, and two children's novellas in Zimbabwe. His poems in England have appeared in diverse magazines and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.^[2]

Awards

• 2001 Bridport First Prize^[3]
• 2010 {Bridport Second Prize}

Work

• "Hive Inspection". Arts Council England, South West. 
• Frogs and Co

Anthologies

• Molony, Rowland; David Wright; John Eppel; Noel Brettell (1982). Four Voices: Poetry From Zimbabwe. ISBN 978-0-86920-259-3.  CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
• Poems (with John Torrance) The Hooken Press 2009 ISBN 978-095556444-4

Novels

• After the Death of Alice Bennett. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 4 Jan 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-275472-1. 
• Themba and the Crocodile Longman Zimbabwe 1984 ISBN 0582 - 58741 - 7
• The Raintree Longman Zimbabwe 1986 ISBN 0582 - 00370 - 9

Non Fiction

• Notes from a Clifftop Apiary and Fifteen Poems About Bees and Other Creatures. Published by Northern Bee Books, 2014.

Interviews

• "John Fowles: The Magus", Dorset, the County Magazine, November 30, 1973

References