{"id":497,"date":"2011-11-21T16:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-11-21T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T16:54:43","slug":"bill-greenwells-new-collection-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Bill Greenwell’s new collection of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bill Greenwell\u2019s new collection, Ringers<\/em>, is published this month by Cinnamon Press, which also published Impossible Objects<\/em> in 2006. It contains sixty poems which veer from the satirical to the serious, well quite serious, and from poems about childhood and death to love and depression. It also includes parodies which have appeared in The Spectator <\/em>and The Independent<\/em> \u2013 gently lampooning Blake, Auden, Herrick, Owen, Stevie Smith and Belloc. There is a mixture of rhymed and unrhymed poetry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bill, who is the arts staff tutor in Gateshead, is on the module teams for A215 and A363 (the latter of which he helped to write), has also written creative writing chapters for A150. He\u2019s been with the OU for five years, and before that taught at Falmouth and Exeter Universities (and before that in FE). He is now back in the north-east, where he was born.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u2018Most of my poetry is at least slightly surreal,\u2019 says Bill. \u2018Or downright absurd. Even the more emotional poems are interested in the bizarre detail. The collection has a recurrent interest in similarities \u2013 between people, between events \u2013 and hence the title.\u2019 Some of the poems have won prizes or have been commended in competitions like the Wigtown (Scottish National) competition, and the Troubadour, Kent and Sussex, and Yeovil competitions. They\u2019ve also been published in a variety of magazines, from Smiths Knoll<\/em> to The Rialto<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Penelope Shuttle describes him as having \u2018one of the sharpest tongues around, one of the sharpest pair of eyes, and the sharpest of hearts\u2019, and describes Ringers<\/em> as \u2018a collection that sees him at the top of his game\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can read more about, and buy Ringers <\/em>at http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/ringers\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Contrary to photographic evidence, Bill Greenwell cannot play the ukulele. But he does use it as a prop.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ringers<\/em>, Cinnamon Press, ISBN 0781907090479<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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