MATTHEW FRANCIS: POETRY AND FICTION
My latest poetry collection, The Green Month, is now out from Faber and Faber. Adapted from the work of the great Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, it celebrates love, desire and the natural world. Read more about it here.
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My third novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps, came out last year from the much-missed Neem Tree Press.
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​Read an extract here.
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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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