William Scammell
{{Short description|British poet}}
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William Scammell (2 January 1939, in Southampton – 29 November 2000) was a British poet.
Life
He was born into a working-class family in the waterside village of Hythe on Southampton Water, but failed the eleven-plus exam. His brother is Michael Scammell.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/dec/13/guardianobituaries3| title=William Scammell: Poet of wit, craft and restless observation| work=The Guardian| date=13 December 2000 | author=John Lucas | location=London}}
He enrolled as a mature student at Bristol University. He taught at the Workers' Educational Association. He moved to the Lake District, with his artist wife, Jackie, and their two sons. In 1975, he moved to Cockermouth to teach at the Newcastle University.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview--he-knows-his-words-worth-william-scammell-has-given-up-his-day-job-to-try-to-wring-a-livelihood-from-his-verse-hed-be-better-off-taking-photos-on-the-qe2-1504653.html| title=INTERVIEW / He knows his words' worth: William Scammell has given up his day job to try to wring a livelihood from his verse. He'd be better off taking photos on the QE2 | author=HUNTER DAVIES| date=16 November 1993 | location=London | work=The Independent}} In 1991, he taught at Nottingham Trent University.
His work appeared in Granta,{{Cite web|url=http://www.granta.com/Contributors/William-Scammell|title=William Scammell}} and Lives of the Poets,{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetrysoc.com/content/publications/review/backcopy/pr763to921/pr784/|title = Poetry Soc| date=5 August 2021 }}
Awards
- 1982 Cholmondeley Award
Work
=Poetry=
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Yes and No |publisher=Peterloo |year=1979 |isbn=9780905291185 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=A Second Life |publisher=Peterloo |year=1982 |isbn=9780905291383 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Jouissance |publisher=Peterloo |year=1985 |isbn=9780905291611 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Eldorado |publisher=Peterloo |year=1987 |isbn=9780905291888 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Bleeding Heart Yard |publisher=Peterloo Poets |year=1992 |isbn=9781871471281 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Stare at the Moon |publisher=Bleeding Heart Yard |year=1992 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=The Game: Tennis Poems |publisher=Peterloo Poets |year=1992 |isbn=9781871471274 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Five Easy Pieces |publisher=Sinclair-Stevenson |year=1993 |isbn=9781856193153 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=Barnacle Bill |publisher=Dedalus Press |year=1994 |isbn=9781873790663 |author-mask=2}}
- {{cite book |last=Scammell |first=William |title=All Set to Fall Off the Edge of the World |publisher=Flambard Press |year=1998 |author-mask=2}}
=Editor=
- {{cite book |last=Hughes |first=Ted |title=Winter Pollen |publisher=Picador USA |year=1983 |isbn=9780312136253 |editor=William Scammell}}
- {{cite book |title=The New Lake Poets |publisher=Bloodaxe Books |year=1991 |isbn=9781852241469 |editor=William Scammell}}
- {{cite book |title=This Green Earth: A Celebration of Nature Poetry |publisher=Ellenbank |year=1992 |isbn=9781873551042 |editor=William Scammell}}
- {{cite book |title=Northern Poetry |publisher=Littlewood Press |year=1991 |isbn=9780946407507 |editor=Debjani Chatterjee, William Scammell}}
=Essays=
- {{cite journal |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/book-review--could-be-much-verse-william-scammell-dips-into-the-raging-torrent-of-new-poetry-1370687.html |title=BOOK REVIEW / Could be much verse |author=William Scammell |journal=The Independent |date=17 April 1994}}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAL0tSOoS44C&q=William+Scammell+poet&pg=PA156| chapter=From 'Living in the World'| title=Title On Louis Simpson: depths beyond happiness | editor=Hank Lazer| publisher=University of Michigan Press| year=1988| isbn=978-0-472-06382-6 }}
- {{cite journal| title=Words and Silences| journal=Spectator | volume=281| issue=8882 | date=31 October 1998| pages=50–1| url=http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/pinter-harold-vol-188/william-scammell-review-date-31-october-1998 }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/19086/in-pursuit-of-the-unspeakable.thtml| title=In pursuit of the unspeakable| date=23 September 2000| journal=The Spectator }}
References
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External links
- {{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/interview--he-knows-his-words-worth-william-scammell-has-given-up-his-day-job-to-try-to-wring-a-livelihood-from-his-verse-hed-be-better-off-taking-photos-on-the-qe2-1504653.html |title=INTERVIEW / He knows his words' worth: William Scammell has given up his day job to try to wring a livelihood from his verse. He'd be better off taking photos on the QE2 |author=Davies |first=Hunter |date=16 November 1993 |work=The Independent |location=London}}
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Category:Writers from Southampton
Category:Alumni of the University of Bristol
Category:Academics of Nottingham Trent University
Category:Academics of Newcastle University