Bill Lewis was one of the near legendary Medway Poets Group along with Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Charles Thomson and Rob Earl.
He has performed his poems in Europe, Latin America and North America and has been published in magazines, journals and anthologies all over the world. Some of his poems have been translated into Spanish and his short stories into German.
In addition, Lewis has been broadcast on television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic and has carried out readings, workshops and lectures at Literary Festivals (including the International Cambridge Poetry Festival), hospitals, prisons, schools and universities and he was the first Writer-in-Residence at the Brighton Festival (1985).
Lewis was one of the original 13 founder members of the Stuckist Movement and has since moved on to develop the art movement. Remodernism with its founder, Joe Machine.
He has exhibited his paintings in various galleries in Paris London, Berlin, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Kentucky and was featured in the 'Punk Victorian' exhibition at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.
To see Bill Lewis readings some of his poems please visit the 'Bill Lewis Channel' on youtube by clicking on the link below http://www.youtube.com/user/medwaybilllewis more can be found on this link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bill+lewis+medway+poet&aq=f All clips are by film director Jonathan Henkel and are part of an on-going project which will result in a documentary about me and the Remodernist movement. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Rights of Bill Lewis to be identified as the author of all words and images on this site which have been respectively asserted by him in accordance with The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. No work on this site may be used in anyway without permission of the author.
