SIMPSON, Matt(hew William)

SIMPSON, Matt(hew William). British, b. 1936. Genres: Children's fiction, Poetry. Career: English teacher at boys' grammar school in Wirral, Cheshire, England, 1959-61; Studio School of English, Cambridge, England, teacher of English as a foreign language, 1961-64; Millbank College of Commerce, Liverpool, England, teacher of English as a foreign language, 1964-66; Liverpool Hope University College (formerly Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, Christ's and Notre Dame College) lecturer, 1966-70, senior lecturer in English, 1970-. Part-time lecturer in creative writing at University of Liverpool, 1980-. Chairman of Windows Project. Gives poetry readings and writing workshops. Publications: Letters to Berlin, 1971; A Skye Sequence, 1972; Watercolour from an Approved School, 1975; Uneasy Vespers, 1977; Making Arrangements, 1982; See You on the Christmas Tree, 1984; Dead Baiting, 1989; An Elegy for the Galosherman: New and Selected Poems, 1990; The Pigs' Thermal Underwear, 1993; To Tasmania with Mrs. Meredith, 1994; Matt, Wes, and Pete, 1995; Catching up with History, 1995; On the Right Side of the Earth, 1995; Somewhere down the Line, 1998; Cutting the Clouds Towards, 1998; Lost Property Box, 1998; Getting There, 2001; Hugging the Shore (essays), 2003; Nothing Extenuate-A Consideration of Shakespeare's Othello, 2003; A Man Forbid-A Reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth, 2003; Wise HereafterObservations on Shakespeare's The Tempest, 2004. Address: 29 Boundary Dr, Liverpool L25 0QB, England. Online address: matt@galosher.freeserve.co.uk