Rowland Bagnall

Rowland Bagnall is a poet based in Oxford, United Kingdom. His second collection, Near-Life Experience (Carcanet, 2024), was an Observer Poetry Book of the Month. A selection of his poems, essays, and reviews is available online.

Articles

A Living Season
Rowland Bagnall discovers “The Essential C. D. Wright,” edited by Forrest Gander and Michael Wiegers.
Rowland BagnallMay 19
- Poetry
Everything Leads to Something Else
Rowland Bagnall explores Beverley Bie Brahic’s “Apple Thieves.”
Rowland BagnallNov 6, 2024
- Poetry
Life in the Archive
Rowland Bagnall reviews the recent rerelease of Bernadette Mayer’s “Memory.”
Rowland BagnallJul 20, 2024
- Art & Architecture
- Poetry
Avoid Having a Self: On Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma”
Rowland Bagnall reviews Anne Carson’s “Wrong Norma.”
Rowland BagnallFeb 7, 2024
- Fiction
- Poetry
Nudging Reality: On James Tate’s “Hell, I Love Everybody”
Rowland Bagnall reviews James Tate’s “Hell, I Love Everybody.”
Rowland BagnallNov 10, 2023
- Poetry
“Still Hungry?”: On John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works”
Rowland Bagnall considers John Ashbery’s “Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works.”
Rowland BagnallAug 10, 2021
- Poetry
Life in the Present Tense: “Like” by A. E. Stallings
Rowland Bagnall considers “Like” by A. E. Stallings.
Rowland BagnallNov 25, 2018
- Poetry
Unknown Lands: On Helen Dunmore’s “Inside the Wave” and Amanda Merritt’s “The Divining Pool”
Rowland Bagnall reviews Helen Dunmore’s “Inside the Wave” and Amanda Merritt’s “The Divining Pool”
Rowland BagnallMar 31, 2018
- Poetry