page_title: Bill Lewis
section_title: 1990s
hierarchical_section_title: Bill Lewis / Life and career / 1990s
caption_attribution_description: English: Bill Lewis with Sydney Carter in 1991
context_page_description: William "Bill" Lewis is an English artist, story-teller, poet and mythographer. He was a founder-member of The Medway Poets and of the Stuckists art group.
context_section_description: During this period that Bill Lewis performed three times with '60s star Julie Felix.
  In 1999 he was one of the founding members of the Stuckist art group along with Childish, Thomson and Ming.  Lewis has been featured prominently in all the key Stuckist shows. In 2004, he was one of the fourteen "founder and featured" artists in The Stuckists Punk Victorian held at the Walker Art Gallery for the Liverpool Biennial.
  In the 1990s Lewis experimented with singing some of his poems often using a frame drum made for him by an American Indian drum maker and also a Native American horn rattle.  His sung poems have influences from shamanic, Latin American and middle Eastern tunes and rhythms.
  Throughout the 1990s he carried out many poetry reading tours, six on the East Coast of the United States, he also performed (in English) in Paris, France.  Many of Lewis' American readings were organized by Professor Robert Parker Sorlien of the University of Rhode Island.  Other readings were funded and organized by The Curbstone Press of Connecticut. The last of these readings was at a festival in Willimantic, Connecticut, where Lewis appeared on stage with Claribel Alegria, Naomi Ayala and Luis J. Rodriguez.
  During this period several of his short stories were translated and published in German newspapers and magazines.  A few of his poems were also translated into Spanish.
caption: Sydney Carter and Bill Lewis Walderslade 1991
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