Over at Ink, Sweat and Tears, Helen Ivory is kindly featuring Tasting Notes today. You can read my poem Food Match, which is taken from the pamphlet, by following the link here.
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"Matthew Stewart is a poet of consolidation, truth, and freshness, with a mastertful sense of economy. His poems matter, and his first collection has been too long in coming. These poems have the rare quality of resonating a long way beyond their modest physical limits."
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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principle is that n...
Wonder-rig, Lee Duggan, David Annwn, Nigel Bird, Knives Forks and Spoons
Press (though I can’t find it on their website), 2024, ISBN:
978-1916590014, £14....
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that I don’t have a history of running times, triumphs or disasters -
completi...
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Rebecca Farmer, Paul Stephenson, Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Christopher Horton ,
Matthew S...
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but wh...
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debut poets. Sometimes, however, I come across a collection that is so
impressive, ...
The number of copies I order when I send a book to print largely depends on
which side of the bed I got out of in the morning. Sometimes I guess about
ri...
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am alone ...
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organised...
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an effort ...
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met on a writing workshop some years ago and belong to a group that meets
regular...
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the second, I lived as if I we both were dead.The words returned around
year th...
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from her writing. A while back, I was looking through past issues of The
North a...
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Tory a...
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allowed to rest under whatever I’m reading, listening to, looking at. This
happens...
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This is a question I have only recently started asking myself. Perhaps it
is diffe...
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reading work in translation at the inaugural Crouch End Literary Festival
this wee...
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displaceme...
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didn't, but better late than never – this is an excellent tribute to the
poet Ma...
*from the publisher:*
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author experimenting with poetic voice and the dram...
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