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About Me
- Matthew Stewart
- I live between Extremadura, Spain, and West Sussex, England. Full collection, The Knives of Villalejo, with Eyewear Publishing. Two pamphlets, both now sold out, with HappenStance Press. You can get in touch with me via e-mail: matthstew@gmail.com.
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Magazines that have published my poetry
- Ambit
- Coffee House Poetry
- Envoi
- Equinox
- Ink, Sweat and Tears
- Iota
- London Magazine
- New Walk
- Obsessed with Pipework
- Orbis
- Other Poetry
- Poetry Nottingham
- Poetry Scotland
- Raindog
- Seam
- The Frogmore Papers
- The Interpreter's House
- The Next Review
- The Rialto
- Under The Radar
Followers
Labels
- A Demand and a Promise
- A.M. Juster
- Abegail Morley
- Accepting the Disaster
- Acetre
- Against the Grain Poetry Press
- Alan Baker
- Alan Buckley
- Alan Jenkins
- Alastair Cook
- Albert Poets
- Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
- Aldershot
- Alice Oswald
- Alison Brackenbury
- Alistair Maclean
- All the Relevant Gods
- All This Is Implied
- Allison McVety
- Alun Lewis
- Amaral
- Amazon
- Ambit
- An Arundel Tomb
- And Other Poems Blog
- Andrew Forster
- Andrew Graves
- Andrew Philip
- Andrew Shields
- Andrew Waterhouse
- Andrew Waterman
- Ángel Campos Pámpano
- Angel Gonzalez
- Angela France
- Angela Topping
- Anna Crowe
- Anna Woodford
- Anthony Wilson
- Antonio Gamoneda
- Antonio Machado
- Antonio Vega
- Antony Owen
- Argentinian Poetry
- Arlen House
- Atrium Poetry
- Bat and Bottle
- Ben Banyard
- Ben Wilkinson
- Best U.K. Poetry Blogs of 2014
- Best U.K. Poetry Blogs of 2015
- Best U.K. Poetry Blogs of 2016
- Best U.K. Poetry Blogs of 2017
- Bilingualism
- Biography
- Birdhouse
- Black Pudding
- Blame Montezuma
- Blind Reading
- Blind Tasting
- Bloodaxe Books
- Bolt Down This Earth
- Book Publishers
- Bottle
- Boy Running
- Brad Johnson
- Brevity
- Bridport Prize
- Butcher's Dog
- Buzzwords Poetry
- C.D. Wright
- Cairn
- Caroline Clark
- Carrie Etter
- CB1 Poetry
- Cell
- Charlotte Gann
- Chichester
- Chick
- Chris Edgoose
- Chrissy Williams
- Cinnamon Press
- Clare Best
- Clarissa Aykroyd
- Clear Poetry
- Closing Time
- Clueless Dogs
- Common Ground
- Commonplace
- Conor O'Callaghan
- Copy Cats
- Cover
- Crónicas de Usura
- Crystal Clear Creators
- Cuts
- D.A. Prince
- Dan Wyke
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- Declan Ryan
- Dedalus
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- Division Street
- Don Paterson
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- Dr Seuss
- Dressing Up
- Early Train
- Edwin Smet
- Eleanor Livingstone
- Elegies
- Emergency Kit
- Emma Lee
- Englishness
- Enrique Sierra
- Eric Gregory Award
- Estuary
- Evangeline Paterson
- Extremadura
- Eyewear Publishing
- Faber and Faber
- Faber New Poets 12
- Failures
- Feria del libro
- Finishing the Picture
- Fiona Moore
- Fito y los Fitipaldis
- Fledglings
- Flip Side to Philip Larkin
- For Real
- Formica
- Forward Prize
- Fossil Record
- Frank Wood
- Friendship
- Frogmore Press
- G.K. Chesterton
- Gareth Prior
- Genres
- Gerry Cambridge
- Giles Turnbull
- Gill Stoker
- Good Dadhood
- Gopagilla
- Gram Joel Davies
- Gwen Harwood
- Hace Triste
- Ham
- Hamish Whyte
- Hannah are you listening
- Hannah Lowe
- Happenstance Press
- Hay Festival
- Hearing Voices
- Helen Ivory
- Helen Mort
- Helena Nelson
- Hide
- Hilary Menos
- Holly McNish
- Hopscotch
- Horizon Review
- How (not) to get your poetry published
- Huffington Post
- Hugo Williams
- hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica
- Ian Abbot
- Ian Hamilton
- Ian McMillan
- If we Could Speak Like Wolves
- In And Out Of The Dark Wood
- Ink Sweat and Tears
- Instructions for making me
- Inventing Truth
- Ira Lightman
- Jack LIttle
- Jaime Gil de Biedma
- James Davey
- Jamie Baxter
- Jane Commane
- Jane Holland
- Jeremy Page
- Jessica Mookherjee
- Joaquín Sabina
- John Betjeman
- John Field
- John Foggin
- John Hollander
- John North
- Jonathan Davidson
- Jonathan Taylor
- Jordi Virallonga
- Jorge Luis Borges
- José Agustín Goytisolo
- Josephine Corcoran
- Joshua Mehigan
- Juan Perro
- Judi Sutherland
- Julia Copus
- Julio Cortázar
- Karen Dennison
- Kate Clanchy
- Kathleen Bell
- Kathryn Gray
- Katrina Naomi
- Katy Evans-Bush
- Keith Douglas
- Kim Moore
- Kingdom Power Glory
- Kon Kan
- Kona Macphee
- L.A. Review of Books
- La Cuadratura del Plato
- Language
- Largo
- Laurie Freelove
- Lawrence Schimel
- Lifesaving poems
- Linda Lamus
- Lindsey Holland
- Line breaks
- Lit and Phil
- Living Room
- Liz Lefroy
- Lizzy Dening
- London Grip
- Long lion days
- Loop of Jade
- Love Me Do
- Lucia Martinez
- Luis Garcia Montero
- Luke Samual Yates
- Lydia Fulleylove
- Lydia Macpherson
- Lyrics
- Maggie O'Farrell
- Making the most of the light
- Manchester Review
- Manky Poets
- Mappings of the Plane
- Maria Taylor
- Mario Benedetti
- Marion Tracy
- Mark Haddon
- Martyn Crucefix
- Mary Evans Picture Library
- Matt Merritt
- Matthew Paul
- Maura Dooley
- Maurice Rutherford
- Mel Pryor
- Melanchrini
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- Menka Shivdasani
- Metrics
- Mexican poetry
- Michael Donaghy
- Michael Hofmann
- Michelle McGrane
- Mike Barlow
- Miming Happiness
- Miranda Warning
- Mónica Doña
- Naomi Jaffa
- National Library of Scotland
- National Poetry Day
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- Needlewriters
- Negative reviews
- New Cemetery
- New Walk
- Nicola Barker
- Nigel Pantling
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- Night Letter
- Nightblue Fruit
- Nine Arches Press
- Norman Thomas di Giovanni
- Nostalgia
- Not Really
- Notes for Lighting a Fire
- Notes on Land and Sea
- Orquesta Mondragon; Javier Gurruchaga
- Other Lives
- Other Poetry
- Paper Swans Press
- Passport
- Patricia Beer
- Patrick Kurp
- Pattern beyond chance
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- Paul Clyne
- Paul Farley
- Paul Henry
- Paul McLoughlin
- Paul Stephenson
- Pedro Serrano
- Peggy Chapman-Andrews
- Pen and paper
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- Peter Sansom
- Phil Brown
- Philip Larkin
- Phoenix Night
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- Plough Prize
- PN Review
- Poem in a bottle
- Poems and Pictures blog
- Poems for Europe
- Poems from the Road
- Poems in two voices
- Poet Tips
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- Poetic truth
- Poetry
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- Poetry Blogs
- Poetry Book Fair
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- poetry competitions
- Poetry film
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- Poetry Magazine
- Poetry Magazines
- Poetry pen vs pencil
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- Poets On Fire
- Polyolbion
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- Prowein
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- Rack Press
- Radio Futura
- Ramona Herdman
- Raymond Carver
- Rayuela
- Real Chips
- Rebecca Bird
- Rebecca Farmer
- Rebecca Goss
- Rebecca Watts
- Record and Play
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- Red Squirrel Press
- Rejection
- Restraint
- Rhian Edwards
- Rhyme's Reason
- Richard Osmond
- Richard Skinner
- Richie McCaffery
- Rishi Dastidar
- Rob MacKenzie
- Rob Mclennan
- Rob Moore
- Robert Peake
- Robin Houghton
- Robin Robertson
- Robin Vaughan-Williams
- Rocio Ceron
- Romalyn Ante
- Rory Waterman
- Ros Barber
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- Rosie Miles
- Ross Kightly
- Roy Marshall
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- Sabor a legumbres
- Salt Publishing
- Sam Willets
- San Fairy Ann
- Santiago Auseron
- Sarah Barnsley
- Sarah Howe
- Sarajevo Roses
- Scattering Ashes
- Scottish Poetry Library
- Secondhand books
- Self-Portrait with The Happiness
- Selfie with Waterlilies
- Seren Books
- Sharon Larkin
- Sheenagh Pugh
- Sheila Wakefield
- Shill
- Shoestring Press
- Sian Hughes
- Siegfried Baber
- Simon Armitage
- Six Things
- Small Nuclear Family
- Smith Knoll
- Smith-Doorstep
- Snippets and Snapshots
- South Downs Poetry Festival 2018
- Spain
- Spanish Poetry
- Sphinx
- Spinning Plates
- Spring Journal
- St Andrews Food and Drink Festival
- Stanza
- Starlight on Water
- Stephanie Bowgett
- Stephen Payne
- Steven L. Isenberg
- Steven Waling
- Strix
- Stuart Pickford
- Suburbia
- Sue Ibrahim
- Sunday Poem
- Surroundings Two
- Suzanna Fitzpatrick
- Swimming with Jellyfish
- Syllabics
- Sylvia Plath
- Tania Hershman
- Tasting Notes
- Ted Hughes
- Telltale Press
- Terms and Conditions
- Terry Street
- The Art of Falling
- The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016
- The Book Hive
- The Brittle Sea
- The Café
- The Cat Flap
- The Compass
- The Dark Film
- The Days That Followed Paris
- The Dichotomy Paradox
- The Dreaded Boy
- The Elephant Tests
- The Fire Station
- The Frogmore Papers
- The Great Animator
- The Great Fogginzo's Cobweb
- The Guardian
- The Hiding Place
- The Knives of Villalejo
- The Knowledge
- The Last Hour of Sleep
- The Last Place On Earth
- The Literateur
- The Long Haul
- The Missing
- The Never-Never
- The Next Review
- The North
- The Only Reason for Time
- The Optimist
- The pair of scissors that could cut anything
- The Poetry School
- The Poetry Shed
- The Poets' Republic
- The price of poetry
- The Probabilities of Balance
- The Rialto
- The Sin Eater
- The Skin Diary
- The Small Hours
- The Stare's Nest
- The stone and the star
- The Sun Bathers
- The Way the Crocodile Taught Me
- The Whitsun Weddings
- The Years
- Their Child
- Those People
- Tierra de Barros
- Tim Love
- Tim Parks
- Titles
- Tobias Hill
- Todd Swift
- Tom Chivers
- Tom Duddy
- Tongues and Grooves
- Tonight the Summer's Over
- Tony Williams
- Torriano Meeting House
- Totally Wired Poetry
- Translating
- Travel And Inspiration
- Treasure Ground
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- True Life Stories
- Two Ravens Press
- U.K. poetry pamphlet competitions
- Ultimatum
- Un Invierno Propio
- Under The Radar
- Uruguayan Poetry
- V Press
- Valle-Inclán
- Waterloo Press
- Way More Than Luck
- Wayleave Press
- Wayne Gooderham
- Wayne Price
- When Love Came to the Cartoon Kid
- Will Harris
- Wine
- Wood Bee Poet
- York Literary Review
- Zaleo
- Zoom
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