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, 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) '.

Awards 2001 Bridport First Prize 2010 {Bridport Second Prize} 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

Plays Facing the Hedge Hard Shoulder Knocking on the Moonlit Door Mind How You Go The Jilly Cooper Effect Hitchhiker The Bridge

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