Roland John

Poet

Available for:
Interview
Talk
Workshop


Contact: Email: RolandJohn300aol.com
Mobile: 0794 1986 135
Fax: 01373 466653

Audiences:
Adults, 14-16 (Key stage 4), 6th Form and college


Details

 

Roland John spent some time travelling widely in Europe and the Middle East, on his return he founded the Hippopotamus Press, a small, independent poetry publishing house specialising in full collections from the new, the neglected and the unfashionable

 

   His verse, translations, criticism, book reviews have appeared in most journals both here and abroad including, Acumen, Agenda, Envoi, The Formalist (USA), Kamadhenu (USA), Litteratura (Zagreb), New Lauren Review (USA), Pembroke Magazine (USA), PN Review, The Poetry Review, The Poet’s Voice, Poetry Wales, Scripsi (Australia), South Coast Poetry Journal (USA), Word and Image (Holland).  His work has appeared in a number of anthologies.

 

   He is particularly interested in the poetry of Ezra Pound and apart from articles on The Cantos for specialist magazines, he has also written a major critical book A Beginner’s Guide to The Cantos of Ezra Pound and given talks and lectures on Pound and his work. He is an occasional assessor of academic and research papers for Paideuma: the Journal of Ezra Pound Scholarship (University of Maine).

 

    Although he has taught poetry in schools, colleges and universities, he has for most of his life promoted poetry through his publishing house and as a magazine editor.  He is a tutor for The Poetry Society.  He regularly gives talks on poetry, workshops, how to get published and other aspects of the poetry world.   Although born in South London he gave up city living in 1989 for the country.  He now lives in Somerset close to the Mendip hills, where he ministers to four tortoises and walks two lurcher dogs.

 

 

	A Lament for England and other poems (isbn:1 904781 76 4) Latest collection including three sequences View in Amazon
	To Weigh Alternatives (isbn:0 903074 72 9) 'urbane, Horatian, Buntinesque, genuine..'. All this is very skilled work' Acumen View in Amazon
	Believing Words are Real (isbn:0 902400 33 0) A collection of forty-four poems View in Amazon
	A Beginner's Guide to The Cantos of Ezra Pound (isbn:3 705204 05 X) A canto by canto analysis of the most significant 20th Century poem View in Amazon
	A Salute to Outposts (Editor) (isbn:3 705204 04 1) A celebration of one of the longest surviving poetry magazines View in Amazon

Organisations:
Society of Authors