Sunday, October 29, 2006

Duhig & Rollinson in Bolton: Monday 30th October

Ian Duhig & Neil Rollinson

at The Octagon Theatre, Howell Croft South, Bolton BL1 1SB
7.30pm
30 October 2006

Ticket prices: £4 (£2 concessions, Ticket office: 01204 520 661, Website: www.octagonbolton.co.uk

Ian Duhig has written four books of poetry, the most recent of which, The Lammas Hireling (2003), was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Best Collection Prize. Earlier collections include The Bradford Count (1991), The Mersey Goldfish (1995) and Nominies (1998). He has previously won an Arts Council Writers and Cholmondeley Award, the Forward Best Poem Prize in 2001 and the British Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition twice. Following 15 years' work with homeless people, he has held fellowships at Lancaster, Leeds, Durham and Newcastle Universities, was the Northern Arts Literary Fellow in 2000 and the 2003 International Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

Neil Rollinson was born in Yorkshire and studied Fine Art at Newcastle before dropping out and moving to London. After travelling around India and the Far East, he returned to England to concentrate on writing, and made his debut with A Spillage Of Mercury in 1996. Winner of the National Poetry Competition in 1997, he published his second collection, Spanish Fly, in 2001; both are Poetry Book Society recommendations. He is currently working with 57 Productions developing a series of virtual online creative writing workshops, including Poetry Jukebox, which can be found at www.poetryjukebox.com. He is also editor of the internet literature magazine Boomerang.

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