BOB WILD
DEATH OF A SEAGULL

Paperback 6" x 9" 71pp ISBN-978-0-244-97807-5
Bob has contributed two stories to The Penniless
Press - Laughing at the
Blackshirts (issue 13) and Making Sense of War. (issue 14)
These and many others about working class life in Prestwich Manchester during
World War 2 are now available in a 262 page paperback in 6" x 9" format.
Boris (Bob) Wild was born in the 1930s
in Prestwich Manchester and grew up there on a council estate. On leaving
secondary school aged 16 he took up an apprenticeship as a compositor in the
printing industry. His National Service was spent in the RAMC where he became a
sergeant instructor.
He worked as a journeyman compositor and had a two year period as a publicity
assistant and print buyer in ICI Pharmaceutical division.
He secured a lectureship in the Department of Printing at Manchester College of
Science and Technology (Later UMIST).
He took a part-time MSc (Tech) at UMIST, a BA and MA (Econ) and a PhD part time
at Victoria University of Manchester.
Bob Wild stayed in Printing Education becoming Head of Department of Printing
Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University.
For 21 years he simultaneously taught Social Science for the Open University.
He is now retired; learning to play the piano and enjoying a variety of classes
at the Wilmslow Guild.
This eclectic collection challenges yet reaffirms the
observation that "the unexamined life is not worth living". The poems
demonstrate that the examined life, though well worth living and at times
amusing can also be extremely painfull
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