Rowland Molony
Rowland Molony 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' 'After the Death of Alice Bennett' '.
Awards
- 2001 Bridport First Prize
- 2010
- 2020
Work
- ''Frogs and Co''
Anthologies
- Poems 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. 2016 The Philosophy behind Meditation.
- Freedom from Self. 2018 A Philosophy for Living.
- Prompts 2020 Spiritual Philosophy.
- Peace of Mind 2023 Spiritual Philosophy.
- Going Through Dark Times 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