Bill Lythgoe is a retired primary school teacher and has been writing poetry seriously for about eight years. He has won five prizes and been published five times in Writing Magazine. He won second prize in the Sentinel Literary Quarterly competition and was published in their Oct-Dec 2013 magazine. He has also won prizes awarded by Fire River Poets, the Wakefield Red Shed, Creative Writing Ink and Nottingham Poetry Society and been published by Earlyworks Press, Strong Verse, Southport Fringe Poetry, Gordon Square Review(Cleveland Ohio!) and Forty 20 (the rugby league magazine). If you Google Bill Lythgoe poems you can read some of his work.