Matthew Francis
I am a poet, novelist and Reader in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. My first poetry collection, Blizzard, was
published in 1996 by Faber and Faber. My second, Dragons, was published in 2001, also by Faber. My novel,
WHOM, was published by Bloomsbury in 1989. I am also the
editor of W.S. Graham's
New Collected Poems, and author of a study of
Graham, Where the People Are. I live in west Wales with
my wife, Creina.
I am also a member of Aberystwyth Chess Club, which
welcomes new members.
This site was last updated on 20 April 2008. My new book,
Mandeville, a sequence of poems on the medieval traveller
Sir John Mandeville, continues to receive excellent reviews. The latest, from Sean O'Brien in
The Sunday Times,
praises its "grandeur and strangeness". Adam Phillips in
The Observer
describes it as "mesmerising... packed with wonderfully vivid and elaborate descriptions...
an extraordinary achievement."
My collection of short
stories, Singing a Man to Death, will be published by
Bluechrome in the autumn.
On this site
Writing
- About my poetry and fiction
News
- My yearly newsletters, for anyone interested in my personal life
Photographs
- Including some pop-up poems
Aldeburgh
- An opera writing course at the famous Festival centre (yellow pages)
Estonia
- Travels in the Baltic republic (green pages)
W.S. Graham
- Twentieth-century Scottish poet whose work I have edited (blue pages)
Links
- Sites I enjoy
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