William Wyld Author

William Wyld is a poet, visual artist and carpenter from London. They were highly commended in the Forward Prize for Best Poem: Performed, the Creative Futures Awards and the Bridport Prize and placed third in The Moth Nature Writing Prize. They have performed widely including at the Queen Elizabeth Hall alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and been published in 14 Poems, Propel, Wet Grain, Basket and elsewhere. William is a member of Wild Thing eco-poetry collective, a Southbank Centre New Poets Collective alum and a Poetry Archive Now winner. Their paintings have been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Show and Discerning Eye, and their constructions and costumes have appeared in independent film, theatre and museum installations across the UK. The Butterfly Bush is their first book.