Bill Greenwell is a poet, parodist and life writer. He worked for 28 years in further education, eventually as a Head of Performing Arts, Language and English, and helped to promote the development of creative writing in post-16 English courses. He devised and taught online creative writing courses for the University of Exeter from 2002 onwards, and also taught on the MA Professional Writing course at University College, Falmouth. He has also run many creative writing courses as a freelance teacher for a variety of authorities and organisations, including NATE and NAWE. He is currently working on developing creative writing courses for the OU.
‘Tony Blair Reminds Me Of A Budgie’ (1997, Entire Photo Here)
‘Impossible Objects’ (2006, Cinnamon)
‘Spoof’ (2005, Entire Photo Here)
He was New Statesman’s house poet from 1993 to 2002, and continues to publish a weekly satirical poem on www.theweeklypoem.com. He contributes regularly to The Independent. His parodies appear in over thirty anthologies.
Recent poems have been published in Coffee House Poetry, Anon, Smiths Knoll, The Rialto, Envoi, The New Writer, Staple, Orbis, The Penniless Press, The Independent, and on BBC Radio 4.
‘The Curious Incidence Of Novels About Asperger’s Syndrome’ (2003, Children’s Literature In Education)
Poetry, Form & Experiment (Univ. of Exeter online course, 2003)
Are They Crazy?: madness in contemporary fiction (Univ. of Exeter online course, 2003)
Is This A Dream?: dreams and contemporary fiction (Univ. of Exeter online course, 2003)
Experimental Writing (Univ. of Exeter online course, 2003)
‘The Road To EX4’ (2004, Exeter CVS) – life writing anthology, co-edited with David Wright.
Mail On Sunday Poem Of The Year, 2004
Shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Award for Best First Poetry Collection (The Forward Prize, 2007)
He is currently working on ‘Lost Lives’, a study of late Victorian figures from Dan Leno to the hangman, William Marwood, and from Edith Nesbit to Christina Rossetti. This is linked to a short history of census-taking, and appears on www.billgreenwell.com together with several hundred poems and parodies.
He is also working on other creative life writing projects, and works as a lyricist with the Oslo-based musician and performer, Deborah Jeanne Weitzman.
