{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{infobox writer |name=Rowland Molony |birth_date={{birth year and age|1946}} |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *novelist }} |nationality=British |spouse=Elizabeth Baxendale |children=2 }} '''Rowland Molony''' (born 1946) is a British poet and novelist.
==Life== Molony graduated from St John's Catholic Comprehensive School Gravesend, Kent, in 1962,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://namesdatabase.com/people/MOLONY/ROWLAND/24362026 |title=Rowland Rowland Molony Molony | St John's Catholic Comprehensive School (Gravesend, Kent, United Kingdom) |publisher=NamesDatabase |accessdate=2015-08-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003220016/http://namesdatabase.com/people/MOLONY/ROWLAND/24362026 |archivedate=3 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> 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 three books for children, 'Temba and the Crocodile', 'The Rain Tree' (Longman) 'After the Death of Alice Bennett' (OUP) '.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/books/client/user1255/ |title=Curtis Brown |publisher=Curtis Brown |date= |accessdate=2015-08-24}}</ref>
==Awards== *2001 Bridport First Prize<ref>[http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/winners2001.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305132445/http://www.bridportprize.org.uk/winners2001.htm |date=5 March 2009 }}</ref> *2010 {Bridport Second Prize} *2020 {Bridport Third Prize)
==Work== * {{cite web| url=http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/project_detail.php?rid=7&id=947&browse=recent| title=Hive Inspection| work=Arts Council England, South West| url-status=dead| archiveurl=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090414030111/http%3A//www.artscouncil.org.uk/regions/project_detail.php?rid%3D7%26id%3D947%26browse%3Drecent| archivedate=14 April 2009| df=dmy-all}} * ''Frogs and Co''
===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| title=Four Voices: Poetry From Zimbabwe | year=1982 | isbn=978-0-86920-259-3 |author1=Molony, Rowland |author2=David Wright |author3=John Eppel |author4=Noel Brettell | publisher=Books of Zimbabwe }} * Poems (with John Torrance) The Hooken Press 2009 {{ISBN|978-095556444-4}}
===Novels=== * {{cite book| title=After the Death of Alice Bennett | publisher=Oxford University Press| place=Oxford | date=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. * 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
===Plays=== * Facing the Hedge * Hard Shoulder * Knocking on the Moonlit Door * Mind How You Go * The Jilly Cooper Effect * Hitchhiker * The Bridge
===Interviews=== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=toF8bTBcwVMC&dq=Rowland+Molony&pg=PA26 "John Fowles: The Magus", ''Dorset, the County Magazine'', 30 November 1973]
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