Spanish Fly by Neil Rollinson - ISBN: 9780224062077
Paperback
Love, sex, and life’s strange mysteries exposed with wit and bravado.

Spanish Fly

  • Paperback

    64 pages

  • Release Date

    15 October 2001

Summary

The long-awaited second collection by the prize-winning Neil Rollinson.

Continuing where he left off with A Spillage of Mercury, Neil Rollinson’s eagerly awaited new collection delves again into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience. Taking the themes of love, sex, and life’s unpredictable mysteries and excitements, he scrapes away at the veneer of normality to reveal a world that is instantly stranger and more compelling than before.

Rollinson revisits …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780224062077
ISBN-10:0224062077
Author:Neil Rollinson
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Jonathan Cape
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:64
Release Date:15 October 2001
Weight:104g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 6mm
Series:Cape Poetry
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Very few poets hit the ground running like this. Move over, Catullus and Villon.

Very few poets hit the ground running like this. Move over, Catullus and Villon. – Tibor Fischer * Good Book Guide *

About The Author

Neil Rollinson

Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections- A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001), Demolition (2007) and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. The Dead Don’t Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.

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