Bill Homewood’s published credits include Theatrical Letters (Marginalia Press 1995, foreword by Sir John Gielgud), his 5 recent collections of poetry: Under the Blue, Poésies, Sonnets for the Godly & the Damned, 50 Sonnets and Painting with Words (Mimosa Books 2015 - 2021) and innumerable commissioned screenplays, stage plays, articles and poems. Bill’s translation of St Exupéry’s masterpiece Terre des Hommes (Land of Men) is available on Ukemi Audiobooks.
 
Bill’s published books can be found on Amazon – paperback and Kindle versions – at his author page: http://bitly.ws/dGRh.
 
His poetry has been published in various magazines including Country Life Magazine and Nexus, and performed widely in various recitals and productions including Who’s Afraid of the Sonnets (RSC and Dublin Shakespeare Festival). During the 2014 invasion of Gaza, Bill’s Poems for the Children of Gaza series received over 3000 hits on the Internet, and many were performed in London, Dublin and Nimes for Celebrity fund-raising galas for Gaza.
 
He has taught poetry workshops for the Poetry Society and given poetry recitals of his own and other poets’ work at most major festivals worldwide, including Edinburgh, Stratford, Jerusalem, Munich and Dallas, and for Poet in the City at King’s Place, London. He has twice held the Eminent Chair in Theatre Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and is an Honorary Citizen of Austin, Texas. It was in Texas that Bill first met Sir Stephen Spender, where they were both teaching Sonnet workshops at UT Houston. The two remained friends until Stephen’s death in 1995.
 
As actor and singer, Bill has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End, on tv and radio. He has recorded 35 classic novels for Naxos AudioBooks. Bill and his wife, actress Estelle Kohler, live in the South of France with their horses and dogs.
 
Comments on Bill’s poetry:
 

…a controlled carelessness which makes me very envious, and a swinging gaiety which is quite authentic.

The late USA Poet Laureate Sir Stephen Spender

This is a beautiful, thoughtful collection. These 50 sonnets read as if they were created by nature as she observed the wonder, and the mess of modern times, not by a bloke called Bill Homewood. But Bill did write them, and I loved them. The future just got better. Long live the sonnet.

Benjamin Zephaniah (review of 50 SONNETS, 2020)

How can I possibly describe what I feel about this book in a sentence or two? There is too much to say. Simon Menzies’ stunning paintings vary greatly in style and subject matter. Bill Homewood’s rich, moving and witty poems take you beyond the image: a beautiful painting of a Cheetah captures my eye, then the words tear at my heart as I understand her world. This is a book to delve into again and again.

Jenny Agutter OBE (on Paintings with Words, 2021)