Phil Bowen

Phil Bowen
Born	1949

Philip Hugh Bowen (born 1949) is a British poet, playwright, performer, teacher and biographer. He grew up in Liverpool, where he taught from 1972 to 1979. During the 1980s, he was a publican before becoming a full-time writer in 1992. He lives in Cornwall and works all over the country as a performer and writer in schools.

Books

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 1998 Runner Up

External links

• Poetry Lesson
• The Playwrights Database - Phil Bowen Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
• 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 2003
• Phil Bowen on topofthetree ^{[permanent dead link]}