Rowland Molony
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Life
Molony graduated from St John's Catholic Comprehensive School Gravesend, KentGravesend, Kent
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, 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
Beer, Devon
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He is a teacher and lecturer. His love for poetry and the teaching of English Literature led to him writing his first book for children, After the Death of Alice Bennett.
He publishes occasional articles on literary and educational matters. He has published one collection of poems, Frogs and Co, and two children's novellas in Zimbabwe. His poems in England have appeared in diverse magazines and been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.