About William Scammell
Lived 1939 – 2000 (aged 61). William Scammell was a British poet, literary scholar, university teacher and man of letters.
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.
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. In 1991, he taught at Nottingham Trent University.
His work appeared in Granta, and Lives of the Poets,
Awards 1982 Cholmondeley Award
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