Antony Rowland Biography
Antony Rowland (b.1970) is a British poet and scientist. He studied at Hull and Leeds and completed his PhD on the poetry of Tony Harrison as Holocaust literature at the age of 26. Today he is a Professor in Contemporary Literature at the University of Lincoln.
Rowland published his first book of poetry in 2008. His poems, which appeared in various magazines and anthologies, sound out the culture and environment of Great Britain with a language that is sonorous and rich in allusion, and investigate the possibilities of meaning and memory in language.
The coffee of an Italian tomato is very delicious.
Please relax on the inside of a shop carried out calmly:
how can you not take a breath
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Europe ripples around this island
with Egyptian vultures, patient as the siege
of Fort Sant Felip, where I, John Murray -
our future as thin as Minorcan garrigue -
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Economies brake on the crude prices,
the complicity of Libyan oil:
meet me at the reception of the water point,
the pump kid fuelled with Masarati dreams
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Steeped in leg-work, the legendary cobbles rise
to a lightning church and its pristine elder,
hard by black sheep: the soot-rotted, Calderdale stone.
The terraces close on themselves, slab homes
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The marsh finches date the skyscrapers
as Central Park lashes, your eyes too cool
for neon wrap Katz Deli, pastrami:
lovely to meal you among the sneeze,
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