Rogue Strands
Matthew Stewart weaves his ways through poetry
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Getting to know your own collection
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Many poets seem to leave their book behind as soon as it's published, but at that point I feel I'm only just getting to know it. Fir...
Sunday, 7 December 2025
My personal experience of selling poetry collections in the current climate
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With no access to slots at major festivals, no wholesaler, no chance to get copies on shelves at physical bookshops, no distribution in the ...
Friday, 5 December 2025
My review of Alan Buckley's Still
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My review of Alan Buckley's new collection, Still (Blue Diode Press, 2025), is now up at The Friday Poem. You can read it in full via t...
Tuesday, 2 December 2025
The book waits...
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The book waits in the box. Maybe for a reading where someone might like the poems enough to grab it, instead of it having to be placed back ...
Monday, 1 December 2025
The Last Carry on YouTube
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The Last Carry is now on my YouTube channel! I uploaded a video of me reading the poem last week, and it's already reached over 350 view...
Saturday, 29 November 2025
A thousand likes
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I can't quite believe that my poem ‘Th e Last Carry ’ has now reached over a thousand likes on Bluesky, many of them from people beyon...
Saturday, 22 November 2025
Christopher James' The Ice Sonnets
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Well, I probably shouldn't write a review of Christopher James' new pamphlet, The Ice Sonnets (Dithering Chaps, 2025), given that m...
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