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

Life

Molony graduated from St John's Catholic Comprehensive School Gravesend, Kent, in 1962, 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 Beer is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England. The village faces Lyme Bay and is a little over west of the town of Seaton. It is situated on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and its picturesque clif ...

. 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''.

Awards

*2001 Bridport First Prize
*2010 *2020 {Bridport Third Prize)

Work

* * ''Frogs and Co''

Anthologies

* * Poems (with John Torrance) The Hooken Press 2009

Novels

* * 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. * On Stillness. (Booklet) 2016 The Philosophy behind Meditation. * Freedom from Self. (Booklet) 2018 A Philosophy for Living. * Prompts (Booklet) 2020 Spiritual Philosophy. * Peace of Mind (Booklet) 2023 Spiritual Philosophy. * Going Through Dark Times (Booklet) 2023 Spiritual Philosophy

Interviews

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Molony, Rowland British poets 1946 births Living people British male poets Royal Air Force airmen