- Gary Bills
Gary Bills is a contemporary English
poet . He has published two full collections of his own work and has edited an internationalanthology .Titles to his credit include:
#"The Echo and the Breath" ("Peterloo", 2001)
#"The Ridiculous Nests of the Heart" ("bluechrome", 2003)
#"The Review of Contemporary Poetry" ("bluechrome", 2005).This anthology was edited by Bills as a snapshot of
English language verse from 2004, and it contains fresh verse fromAndrew Motion ,Brian Patten ,Harry Guest ,Al Alvarez ,Penelope Shuttle and many other high profile names from the contemporary poetry world. It was marketed specifically to raise funds for theStroke Association .Bills's own poetry tends to be both experimental and formal, with a strong emphasis on
imagery andlyricism .A
religious or spiritual tendency is perhaps more evident in his first collection, and his later work is more personal, with a number of poems concerned withfamily life andfather hood.His work has been favourably reviewed in many high-profile literary journals in the UK, including
Envoi ,Orbis ,The Black Mountain Review andSouth .His poetry has also been published in the national UK newspaper, "
The Guardian ".Bills has given readings at "The Ledbury Poetry Festival " and also at the "Poetry on the Lake" event atLake Orta inItaly .He has won several prizes, including the
Bill Winter Award , administered by Poetry on the Lake for the best short poem.He is the associate editor of the international poetry journal, "
HQ ".Alongside
John Hartley Williams , he was a judge of the 2007 Poetry on the Lake poetry competition.
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