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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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- The Afterlife
- The Art of Falling
- The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016
- The Book Hive
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- The Dreaded Boy
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- The Next Review
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- The Optimist
- The pair of scissors that could cut anything
- The Poetry School
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- The Probabilities of Balance
- The Rialto
- The Sin Eater
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- The Small Hours
- The Space Between Us
- The Stare's Nest
- The stone and the star
- The Sun Bathers
- The Unmapped Woman
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