Kevin Cowdall Biography

Kevin Cowdall was born in Liverpool, England, where he still lives and works. In all, over 300 of Kevin's poems have been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and on web sites, in the UK and Ireland, across Europe, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, India, Canada, and the USA, and broadcast on BBC Radio, RTÉ Radio, Ireland, and local radio stations across the UK.
His 2016 retrospective collection, Assorted Bric-à-brac, brought together the best from three previous collections (The Reflective Image, Monochrome Leaves, and A Walk in the Park) with a selection of newer poems.
His 2019 collection, Natural Inclinations, features fifty poems with a common theme of the natural world.
His most recent collection,100 Haiku (2024) , is a celebration of the traditional Japanese unrhymed poetic form, mostly on the theme of nature.
His poem for children, The Land of Dreams, was published on the Letterpress Project website, wonderfully illustrated by Chris Riddell, and is available on YouTube.
Kevin is also the author of four novels, The Dinsdale Fox, The Ghost in the Room, The Ghost in the Shadows, and Cosgrove's Sketches, a novella, Paper Gods and Iron Men, a short story collection, The Ophelia Garden, and a play, Sometimes...