established in 2014
As actor and singer Bill has worked extensively in Television and Theatre (Royal Shakespeare Company and West End) and has twice won The USA AudioFile Earphones Award for audio book recordings. He has been twice honoured as Eminent Scholar in Theatre at Florida Atlantic University and is an Honorary Citizen of Austin, Texas. Nominated for the 2021 Audie Awards, New York, Bill’s many awards include “Audio Book of the Year” in several major newspapers in USA, Ireland and UK. His recording for Naxos AudioBooks of the unabridged THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, high on the list in the American charts, remains one of the most successful audio books of all time.
The late Sir Stephen Spender, USA Poet Laureate, wrote of Bill's poetry: "... a controlled carelessness which makes me very envious, and a swinging gaiety which is quite authentic."
Novelist Adam Thorpe wrote: "Drawing on his long experience as Shakespearean Actor as well as a skilled poet, Bill Homewood has produced a delightful and slightly irreverent homage to the sonnet form ... lively metaphors and alluring music ... a lovely book."
In 50 SONNETS, you will find more of Homewood's humour, irony and regret. Homewood has assembled sonnets from previous publications and new work, as ever exploring his own obsessions with Time, Love and Destiny.
Sir Derek Jacobi's review: "Bill sings in praise of the beautiful and versatile sonnet, with infectious lightness and humour. For the poetry lover he is a delight - for everyone else he is a revelation."
Benjamin Zephaniah writes: "A beautiful and thoughtful collection. These 50 sonnets read as if they were created by Nature as she observed the wonder and the mess of modern times, not by a bloke called Bill Homewood. But Bill did write them, and I loved them. The future just got better. Long live the sonnet!"
Dame Janet Suzman writes : I absolutely love “50 Sonnets”. Each one draws me in completely. I salute Bill Homewood, Poet.” Of PAINTING WITH WORDS, Dame Janet writes: “I’m transported. A beautiful book of poems. This book will be my bedreading for the foreseeable. It’s very rich.”