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Matthew Francis
Dragons Faber £7.99

	Matthew Francis is a poet capable of enormous leaps of imagination. He takes subjects as various as dragons and Jane Austen’s house and creates poems that are as disconcerting as they are moving. Matthew Francis has a quiet but distinctive voice – he doesn’t clamour for attention – and his poems repay slow, careful reading. Look out for some sharp, tongue-in-cheek wordplay and beautifully elegant phrasing which makes reading his work out aloud a real pleasure. Click here to return to the list of Next Generation Poets

Going Through the Villages

Midnight Faring      Lullaby Lea
Slow-under-Wool   Lullaby Lea
Settle Down
Wallow                  Sheep's Quorum
                            Inwood Heaven
Lullaby Lea            Gossip-sub-Breathing
Lullaby Lea            Glimmerfields

Long Reckoning Wanders End

Tremble Noctis Wanders End
Market Looming
Venge

from Dragons

Biography
Matthew Francis lived in Winchester for many years. He worked for ten years in the computer industry before returning to university to study the work of W. S. Graham. He now lives in Wales where he lectures in creative writing at the University of Aberystwyth. Matthew’s poem ‘The Ornamental Hermit’ won the TLS/Blackwell’s Prize 2000. ‘City Autumn’ won the national Gathering Swallows prize for the best poem by a published poet in response to Keats’ ‘To Autumn’. He received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1998. His first collection of poetry, Blizzard, was published by Faber in 1996.