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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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Originally posted on Tears in the Fence: There is a tone of quiet humanity in these poems and that comes as no surprise as I look back on the versions of L...
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Bridget Sprouls! Our 5th Fortnight winner! Sprouls' poems have appeared in *Field, Map Literary, The New Yorker, The Stinging Fly, *and elsewhere. She li...
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[image: This is our new pet, Snibby. She sleeps a lot. I am finally a cat lady. #catsofinstagram] Maria Taylor and her new owner, Snibby.Commonplace Blog: ...
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Tempting to start like Garrison Keillor…It’s been anything but a quiet week here on the poetry front. On Monday it was the Beehive Poets in Bradford. The B...
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Grasshopper you hung out with me in long wild grass, landed on my books, strumming on taut strings to dazzle my childhood through lazy summer days snap sna...
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Sheila Hamilton’s poems reach out and she seems to reveal in stories from or of others. “Inuit Tales” sets up the idea “Hunger is the hawk/ that will never...
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Constable Country: The Stour, between Dedham and Flatford Mill David (Gill) and I are looking forward to reading our poems alongside ten other poets at The...
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Hull is currently UK city of culture for 2017, so you would think its most famous literary resident, the poet Philip Larkin, would be getting something of ...
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I’ve been on holiday for the last week in Benidorm with three friends that I run with. Our women’s running holiday is turning into an annual tradition. I...
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Well, this is organised so unlike most poetry collections that I think I'd better start by describing the premise. The introduction explains that the prota...
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Disclosure: Met Alsadir briefly at a reading in Edinburgh in 2016. As ever, the book discusses many experiences outwith my own, not least motherhood and th...
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Today’s blog post is about a prickly, awkward subject for writers: dealing with criticism. As a poet, I like to think I’m fairly adept at assimilating feed...
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Fergus Allen – CBe's most senior author – died on 22 July, aged 95. His funeral was today. *‘To Be Read Before Being Born’:No time is allowed for ...
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This morning, out of the blue (or rather grey, since this particular August morning is cloud- lidded and spotted with heavy intermittent drops of rain,) th...
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In case you thought this was just a lot of big talk, I actually did pick up Benjamin Fondane's *Le mal des *fantô*mes *in Paris a few months ago and I'v...
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All prose - - "The Toilet Rolls Sketch" (The Stockholm Review of Literature) - "How time flies" (Spelk) - "Deathbed" (Ellipsis zine)
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There's a terrific post here from Leicestershire poet Mark Goodwin, about his children hand-rearing a Swallow. It's interesting from an ornithological poin...
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after Martin Carter They enjoy talking in the dark. They are just voices. With the power cut his voice is air, warm, passing over her e...
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The second instalment of our exploration of Scottish city’s second-hand bookshops and charity shops looks at Edinburgh. Edinburgh is the city where I cut m...
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[image: A MOMENTARY STAY] [image: A rather orangey photograph of boxes piled up, and sealed packs of books. You can see something to the left that could be ...
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My website and blogs are now all in one place at clarebest.co.uk I do hope you’ll go over there and have a look and please do follow my blog on the NEWS / ...
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It’s the end of a very long day. I’ve spent most of it driving (aprox 150 miles on a succession of unfamiliar motorways and by-roads). And listening to t...
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In my poem 'Graft', the opening line is just a bit of reported speech. Something I heard said a while ago, by someone who'd never run competitively befor...
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First some OULIPO background, as a reminder to me and anyone else who needs it. From the *Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics*: OULIPO is the acro...
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Sometimes someone comes along and does something that, once it’s done, seems like it must always have been this way. Charles Boyle did one of those things ...
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When I wrote about Claire Trévien’s first collection The Shipwrecked House in 2013, I had never met the author. Since then we’ve collaborated on readings a...
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This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. This review was commissioned for the T.S. … Continu...
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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
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- Accepting the Disaster
- Acetre
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- Alan Baker
- Alan Buckley
- Alan Jenkins
- Alastair Cook
- Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
- Aldershot
- Alice Oswald
- Alison Brackenbury
- Alistair Maclean
- 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
- 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
- Bilingualism
- Biography
- Birdhouse
- Black Pudding
- Blame Montezuma
- Blind Reading
- Blind Tasting
- Bolt Down This Earth
- Book Publishers
- Boy Running
- Brad Johnson
- Brevity
- Butcher's Dog
- Buzzwords Poetry
- C.D. Wright
- Cairn
- Caroline Clark
- Carrie Etter
- Cell
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- Chichester
- Chick
- 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
- Dave Coates
- Dave Poems
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- Dawn Gorman
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- Don Paterson
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- Elegies
- Emergency Kit
- 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
- 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
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- 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
- Lifesaving poems
- Linda Lamus
- Lindsey Holland
- Line breaks
- 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
- Mappings of the Plane
- Maria Taylor
- Mario Benedetti
- Marion Tracy
- Mark Haddon
- Martyn Crucefix
- Mary Evans Picture Library
- Matt Merritt
- Maura Dooley
- Maurice Rutherford
- Mel Pryor
- Melanchrini
- Mending The Ordinary
- 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
- Needlewriters
- Negative reviews
- New Cemetery
- New Walk
- Nicola Barker
- Nigel Pantling
- Night Drive
- 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
- Patricia Beer
- Pattern beyond chance
- Paul Bentley
- Paul Clyne
- Paul Farley
- Paul Henry
- Paul McLoughlin
- Paul Stephenson
- Pedro Serrano
- Pen and paper
- Peony Moon
- Peter Sansom
- Phil Brown
- Philip Larkin
- Phoenix Night
- Pindrop Press
- Plough Prize
- Poem in a bottle
- Poems and Pictures blog
- Poems for Europe
- Poems from the Road
- Poems in two voices
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- Poetic truth
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- Poor Rude Lines
- propolis books
- Prowein
- Racing the Stable Clock
- Rack Press
- Radio Futura
- Raymond Carver
- Rayuela
- Real Chips
- Rebecca Farmer
- Rebecca Goss
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- Red Devon
- Red Squirrel Press
- Rejection
- Restraint
- Rhian Edwards
- Rhyme's Reason
- Richard Osmond
- Richard Skinner
- Richie McCaffery
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- Rosie Miles
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- Salt Publishing
- Sam Willets
- San Fairy Ann
- Santiago Auseron
- Sarah Barnsley
- Sarah Howe
- Scattering Ashes
- Scottish Poetry Library
- Secondhand books
- Self-Portrait with The Happiness
- Seren Books
- Sharon Larkin
- Sheenagh Pugh
- Shill
- Sian Hughes
- Siegfried Baber
- Simon Armitage
- Six Things
- Small Nuclear Family
- Smith Knoll
- Smith-Doorstep
- Snippets and Snapshots
- Spain
- Spanish Poetry
- Sphinx
- Spinning Plates
- Spring Journal
- St Andrews Food and Drink Festival
- Stanza
- Starlight on Water
- Stephen Payne
- Steven L. Isenberg
- Steven Waling
- Stuart Pickford
- Suburbia
- Surroundings Two
- Suzanna Fitzpatrick
- Swimming with Jellyfish
- Syllabics
- Sylvia Plath
- Tasting Notes
- Ted Hughes
- Telltale Press
- 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 Guardian
- The Hiding Place
- The Knives of Villalejo
- The Knowledge
- 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 Shed
- The price of poetry
- The Probabilities of Balance
- The Rialto
- 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
- Translating
- Travel And Inspiration
- Treasure Ground
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- True Life Stories
- Two Ravens Press
- U.K. poetry pamphlet competitions
- Un Invierno Propio
- Under The Radar
- Uruguayan Poetry
- V Press
- Valle-Inclán
- Waterloo Press
- Wayleave Press
- Wayne Gooderham
- Wayne Price
- When Love Came to the Cartoon Kid
- Will Harris
- Wine
- York Literary Review
- Zaleo
- Zoom
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