Teaching
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Good Grief! Navigating Grief in Poetry – 4 week course starts in September
There are a couple of spaces left on the Good Grief! course I am running at the Phoenix Arts Centre in September. (thanks to Clare Bryden for the flyer) Here is the blurb I wrote for the ‘studio’ version of the course I taught for the Poetry School last year: In Levels of Life, Julian Barnes… Continue reading
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Songs for Ibba
Ten years ago, I spent two weeks teaching Creative Writing in a girl’s school in Ibba, in Western Equatoria state in South Sudan. We used drama and song (‘Waterloo Sunset,’ ‘Up on the Roof,’ ‘Under the Bridge’), text-less books and story cubes to create poems and narratives. It was certainly interesting to pit my English as a… 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
About Me
An award-winning poet and educator based in the South West of England.
Matt is a fine communicator who engages audiences and groups quickly and easily. He enables and energises people, whatever their age or background. He is not afraid to explore unusual routes to engage people and it is this precisely that so often generates a successful outcome. People are surprised by him and, in turn, they frequently surprise themselves.
Pat Winslow, poet