Bill Costley is an American poet, whose father was born in Glasgow. He has kindly sent us some of his work. Bill has sent us some details of himself and his life as a poet:

During 1985 I lived in Fife and participated in the literarary life of Edinburgh: as a member of the Scottish Poetry Library Association, I read at Christopher North House during the '85 Festival, and became a substantial donor of poetry books to their branch libraries (notably, a dozen copies of James Merrill's SCRIPTS FOR THE PAGEANT.) I also had a one-act play "Hard Currency" workshopped at the Edinburgh Playwrights' Platform (directed by George Byatt and George Gunn) at the Traverse Theatre when it was situated in the Grassmarket. A poem of mine on exile appeared in the first Spring Fling anthology published by the Edinburgh District Council, and another on jogging appeared in the anthology of sports poetry edited by Alan Bold (Mainstream, 1985.)

You can read more about me in CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS New Revision Series Update v.35 (1991), the International Directory of Poets (Cambridge), or by visiting one of my websites -
http://home.thirdage.com/Writing/billcostley/
http://www.gis.net/~sunset/bill.html

Read Bill's poems:

The Night Belongs to Death

A Living Factory Chimney Speaks

Briar Rose Rings

Poet sur la Plage

Cathedral and Spinning Window

OUT OF Manhattan

SPECULA reSPECULANS

PULL (Annie Lennox) PULL

Ozymandias II