The 2018 RSL Literature Matters Prize
(left to right: me, Michael Caines, Kate Clanchy, Gillian Slovo (judge), Evan Placey, Pascale Petit and Owen Lowery)
I was delighted to win a Literature Matters prize for my Lost and Found project, which uses a residency at Bristol Temple Meads Lost Property Office as the basis of an investigation into what makes us human.
The sequence of poems links the Lost Property Office with the Greek Underworld. It was launched at a reading for the Exeter Classics Association before an audience including Dr Sharon Marshall and Professor Daniel Ogden in May 2019.
In 2021, I also gave a reading for Oxford University’s Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama Series of readings by contemporary poets engaging with the classics alongside poets Vasiliki Albedo, Kym Deyn, and Mehmet Izbudak:
Matt Bryden Poetry 