Gregory Woods

Who is Gregory Woods?

Gregory Woods is a British poet who grew up in Ghana.

He was educated at The Oratory School and the University of East Anglia.

Woods began his teaching career at the University of Salerno. Since 1990 he has worked at Nottingham Trent University, where, in 1998, he was appointed Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies, the first such appointment in the United Kingdom. Woods' main areas of interest are twentieth-century gay and lesbian literature; post-war gay and lesbian film and cultural studies; and the AIDS epidemic. In addition to his poetry collections, he is the author of a number of critical books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition. He has been a member of the board of directors of East Midlands Arts and is a Fellow of the English Association.

Woods is cousin to British journalist Justin Webb.

Woods is a technically gifted poet who writes in free verse, syllabics and metre.