MATTHEW FRANCIS: POETRY AND FICTION
My third novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps, is now out from Neem Tree Press.
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A historical crime fiction novel set in Victorian London’s gaslit theatre scene, where ghosts lurk in the shadows and murder takes centre stage.
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Gaslight. Ghosts. Murder.
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Read an extract from Nocturne with Gaslamps here.
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My next poetry collection, The Green Month, will be published by Faber and Faber in October 2025. It's a sequence of love and nature poems freely adapted from the work of the great medieval Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym.
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My book Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City, is out in paperback from Routledge. Depersonalization is a little-known but quite common condition which causes the world and / or the self to seem unreal. My study begins with a memoir of my experience of it in my 20s, which was closely linked to the beginning of my writing career. I go on to argue that it is a significant factor in many literary texts and offers some important lessons for writers. Read more about it here.
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Matthew Francis:
Poetry and Fiction
I am a poet, novelist and professor emeritus in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. I am the author of seven poetry collections, two novels, and a collection of short stories. I am also the editor of W.S. Graham's New Collected Poems, and author of a study of Graham, Where the People Are. I live in West Wales with my wife, Creina.
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