Matthew Francis
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Matthew Francis (born 1956 in Hampshire) is a British poet, editor of W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and teaches at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His status is very well known as a contemporary British poet. He his best revered for his impressive wordplay and sharp imagination whose beautifully elegant phrasing makes him a very popular poet.
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[edit] Recent Biography
He lived in Winchester for many years. He worked for ten years in the computer industry. After his time spent in the computer industry, he went back to university to study the work of W. S. Graham. Soon after he edited Graham's New Collected Poems and authored a study on Graham called Where the People Are. He now lives in Wales with his wife where he lectures in creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
[edit] Writing
His writing is very strict only to give away the sense of distillation, of homing in, that is a crucial feature for most of his writing. Amy Wack, Poetry Wales categorized his writing by saying, "Francis's style is clever ebullient, pacey, often brilliant." HIs poem The Ornamental Hermit won him 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.
[edit] Bibliography
- Whereabouts (Rufus Books, 2005)
- Dragons (2001)
- The Ornamental Hermit (2000)
- City Autumn
- Blizzard (1996)
- Whom (1989)
- AMERICAN FUGUE (2000)
- Where the People Are (ISBN 1-84471-048-3)
