Welcome to Bill Greenwell's site
Welcome to www.billgreenwell.com. This is a web-site with several functions,
but please do feel free to browse different areas. Here’s a rough guide.
Courses and Workshops
Bill is a creative writing and literature teacher, at university and sixth
form level. This section of the site shows you how to enrol on to the courses
Bill is running. It also gives you details of courses or workshops in creative
writing, literature and general studies which you can book Bill to run for
you.
Parodies, Satirical Poems, Poems, Articles
There are several different sections, which you are welcome to browse. Under
Satirical Poems, you’ll find the whole text of the now out-of-print
Tony Blair Reminds Me Of A Budgie, and many other poems written during a nine-year
stint as New Statesman’s house poet. You’ll also find two
hundred published and unpublished poems. There is also an archive of some
of Bill’s articles.
Whilst waiting for Impossible Objects, why not buy Spoof, Bill's new collection of parodies? An ideal Christmas gift!
Click on About Spoof on the sidebar for details.  |
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The Weekly Poem offers you a spoof or comment on current
events, and there’ll be a new one – weekly.
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Watch the YouTube images accompanying the song 'Dangerous Heart', written by Deborah Jeanne Weitzman and Bill Greenwell, and on Deborah's new album 'Touch The Sky'?
New collection of poetry: Impossible Objects.
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize For Poetry (Best First Collection category) 2006.

A brand new collection of Bill’s poetry has been published by Cinnamon Press. Its title is Impossible Objects, and it contains about sixty poems, most of them composed this year.
Its price is £7.99, including p& p within the UK.
To contact Cinnamon Press, go to www.cinnamonpress.com, or write to Cinnamon Press, Meirion House, Glan yr Avon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd LL41 3SU, from which you can pre-order the book.
"A Fish in a Tree" is Bill's account of tracing the descendants of the Sunderland couple Mary Wilson and George Greenwell, who married in 1811.