Bill Lewis is one of our best contemporary poets. Magical, lyrical, engaging ... time and time again the poems take us intellectually and emotionally into their embrace.

- Kevin Bailey, HQ Poetry Magazine

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Since reading his poems in Nicaragua in 1989, Lewis has had a love of the Hispanic world. People there clearly recognise in him what Lorca identified as duende.  His work is influenced by Neruda, Claribel Alegriά and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but at the same time he is steeped in the rural Kent of his youth and the Medway Towns. He explores the ends of all worlds and in between lies the Britain of Blake, MR James, Elgar and Vaughan Williams.

- Patrick Miles, Cambridge

 

"Bill Lewis's wide-ranging, truthful, plain speaking work demonstrates the strengths of a profound connection and attachment to place."
- Peter Straub

"Bill Lewis has the true soul of a poet (and not in a bullshitty way of some poets I could name) I love the mix of biography, personal folklore, shadow projection, symbolism, reportage ... inspirational stuff."
- Graham Joyce (Author of 'A Kind Of Fairy Tale' and 'The Tooth Fairy')

"The poet of the Paradigm Shift." 

- Martin Espada - Academy of American Poets

"Bill Lewis is an innovator of language ... Magically real ... I love his storytelling."  
- Claribel Alegria

"Most impressive."

- Alan Sillitoe

"... vitality, wit, playfulness and a willingness to experiment"
- D M Thomas (Author of 'The White Hotel)

"A shaman with words" 

- Terri Windling

"Dynamic, witty, passionate and compassionate"

- Sydney Carter

"A spiritual ambassador for those on the margins of existence ... he keeps open the ways of integrity and beauty in a darkening world" 

- Caitlin Matthews

"The living stuff of the land itself, from the roots of which he draws sustenance and fuel for his work"
- John Matthews

"Bill Lewis is effortlessly stylish.  He writes, paints and performs with ferocious energy ... the character and charisma of a genius"

- Sarah Hehir (Award winning Playwright)

"When I look at the paintings of Bill Lewis, and read his poetry, I think of Magic Realism.  Not just as a literary convention, but in the context of looking through the mundane and seeing the miraculous underpinnings of it all.  It is a gratifying experience to see the world as he presents it"
- Richard Bledsoe (writing in the Remodern Review)

" ... represents the resurfacing of a serious talent who combines the high literary with popular culture in a manner which is as delightful as it is approachable. Great stuff."          
- Steve Spence (writing for Litter Magazine)

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"What a range of perspectives; many heads, only one heart though: a giant one whose beat counterpoints with the other true poets of the world."

- Anthony Rudolf (Poet, Publisher, Translator and Founder of The Menard Press)