2025
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Poetry London
There’s lots of good news to share, including a poem in Poetry London. It’s called ‘Enquiry’ and I’m really grateful to editor Niall Campbell for taking it. As with all issues under his editorship, it’s surrounded by good work. Continue reading
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On ‘Landscape’
Great to have my poem ‘Landscape’ appear in the Ted Hughes sister journal Recklings. It won the William Soutar prize in 2020, judged by Samuel Tongue. Here’s the essay I wrote to accompany it: A decade ago, I was driving from Lisbon down to Aljezur in Southwest Portugal on Easter Sunday. The heat was direct… Continue reading
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Good Grief?
Ninny, the Invisible Girl, Tove Jansson I gave a research lecture at Falmouth University this week. It was great to take the opportunity to visit the campus, try the Spring Ale at the Seven Stars and sample native oysters at the Beach House. Here’s the abstract of my paper ‘Good Grief – Literary Techniques for… Continue reading
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‘Thinking of Blade Runner in the Turkish Quarter of Berlin’
What a pleasant surprise to learn that this poem was shortlisted by Abigail Parry for the 2024 Live Canon International Poem competition. Not least because it documents a trip from the Czech Republic to Germany eighteen years ago, when I and my then girlfriend hitched a lift from Prague to attend a christening in Hamburg.… Continue reading
About Me
An award-winning poet and educator based in the South West of England.
Matt Bryden Poetry 