Philip Hugh Bowen (born 1949) is a British poet, playwright, performer, teacher and biographer. He grew up in
Liverpool
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, where he taught from 1972 to 1979. During the 1980s, he was a
publican
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before becoming a full-time writer in 1992. He lives in
Cornwall
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and works all over the country as a performer and writer in schools.
Books
Poetry
*What the night says
*That Was Peter Glaze – Ure Press – 1993,
*The Professor’s Boots – Westwords – 1994,
*Jewels & Binoculars (Ed) – Stride 1994,
*Things We Said Today (Ed) Stride -1995,
*Variety’s Hammer – Stride – 1997,
*Starfly – Stride – 2004,
*Nowhere’s Far – New & Selected Poems 1990–2009 – Salt Publications,
As contributor
*Hepworth –Westwords – 1993,
*Return to Sender – Headlock – 1994,
*The Bridport Anthology – Sansom - 1995,
*The Forward Anthology – Forward – 1998,
*Paradise for Sale – Arts Council Collection – 1998,
*Welsh Routes – Liverpool Community Spirit – 2006,
*Hidden Histories – Exeter University – 2007,
*You Have Been Warned – Oxford - 2008,
Prose
*A Gallery to Play to – the story of the Mersey Poets – Stride – 1998, Updated and republished – Liverpool University Press - 2008.
Plays
*A Handful Of Rain: New York City, Edinburgh, Swansea, New End Theatre – 1999 - 2002,
*The Same Boat:
Swansea
Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of ...
, Cardiff and at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003/4,
*The Other Side of the Words: Swansea Penzance in 2004 – St Ives 2006,
*Chimney Kids– (a musical for children with Paul Butler): Camborne, 2004, Swansea 2006,
*Anything But Love: New End London 2007, Swansea 2008, St Ives Festival 2009, Cheltenham Literature Festival 2010
*Parlez Vous Jig Jig: Swansea, 2004, 2006, Shakespeare Link, Powys, Rosemary Branch, London 2008.
*A Case of the Poet: London 2006, Hull 2007,
Other publications
*Crafting Poetry – Original Writing for GCSE Readings by Phil Bowen – DMEC
*The Blue Hand DVD (DMEC)
*Adventures in Poetry – Radio 4 - Tonight at Noon – Adrian Henri 2004
*Centre of the Creative Universe – Liverpool & the Avant-Garde – Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool – 2007 . Revisiting Allen Ginsberg’s Liverpool trip in 1965….
Radio, Television and Film
*Poetry Please
*Write Out Loud
*Something Understood
*The Archive Hour
*Adventures in Poetry - Radio 4
*Happy Birthday Poetry - Radio 2
*London Weekend TV
*Laughing Gas (Andrew Lanyon Films) - Mister Aquaviva Pilot for Theta Films 2007/08
Awards
*The Ralph Lewis Award 1997 (Sussex University)
*The
Bridport Prize
Bridport Arts Centre is an arts centre in Bridport, Dorset, England. Founded in 1973, it is housed in and around a 19th-century, Grade II listed building, formerly known as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. The complex includes the Marlow Theatre, t ...
1998 Runner Up
External links
*Poetry Lesso
*The Playwrights Database - Phil Bowe
*Phil Bowen: Generosity and Power in Poetry – from a talk by the poet and playwright at the fiftieth anniversary celebration at The Dylan Thomas Festival 200
*Phil Bowen on topofthetre
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1949 births
British poets
Living people
British publicans
British male poets