Spanish Fly

Continuing where he left off in "A Spillage of Mercury", this collection of poetry from Neil Rollinson delves again into the dark, moist, unexpected bag of human experience. The poems explore the themes of love, sex and life's unpredictable mysteries.

Very few poets hit the ground running like this. Move over, Catullus and Villon.

Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections: A Spillage of Mercury (1996), Spanish Fly (2001), Demolition (2007) and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead . The Dead Don't Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.