ANTONY ROWLAND

Antony Rowland is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Met and a member of the Centre for Place Writing. He has published three poetry collections: The Land of Green Ginger (Salt, 2008), which was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Award; I Am a Magenta Stick (Salt, 2012); and M (Arc, 2017). He was awarded the Manchester Poetry Prize in 2012, and his poems have been anthologised in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010), and New Poetries III (Carcanet, 2003). He received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2000, and recorded for the national Poetry Archive in 2009 and the Lyrikline (Berlin) in 2014. The Dutch government elected him as a UK poetry ‘ambassador’ for 2016: his poetry was read on national television, and shown on screens at Schipol Airport and Amsterdam Central Station. In 2018, the poem ‘Newark’ from M was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and was published in The Forward Book of Poetry 2019. The first of Antony’s three poems for PLACE 2020 originally appeared in the collection M. The last two were written especially for PLACE 2020.