Poetry at Pembroke: Matt Duggan
PAST EVENT | 23 October 2019 18:00
Poetry at Pembroke will return in Michaelmas 2019! The 'In the Pink' poetry series will commence weekly at 6pm on Wednesdays. The first reading will feature Matt Duggan.
Matt Duggan was born in 1971 and lives in Bristol. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Potomac Review, Here Comes Everybody, Marble Poetry Magazine, Osiris Poetry Journal, Dodging the Rain, The Blue Nib, Into the Void, International Times, Foxtrot Uniform, The Journal, Confluence, The Dawntreader, The High Window, The Ghost City Review, L’Ephemere Review, Lakeview International Literary Journal, and Levure Litteraire. Matt won the Erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2015 with his first full collection of poems Dystopia 38.10, and became one of five core members at Erbacce-Press, where he interviews poets for the erbacce-journal, and organises events and reads with the other members for the annual erbacce prize.
In 2017 Matt won the Into the Void Poetry Prize with his poem “Elegy for Magdalene”, and read his work across the east coast of the U.S.A. with readings at the Cambridge Public Library Poetry Series in Boston, a guest poet appearance at The Parkside Lounge c/o George Wallace and Sip This in New York. Matt read at his first U.S. book launch in Philadelphia and has two pamphlets available: One Million Tiny Cuts (Clare Song Birds Publishing House) and A Season in Another World (Thirty West Publishing House), plus a small limited edition booklet The Feeding ( Rum Do Press). He has read his work across the world including The Poetry on the Lake Festival in Orta, Italy, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, The Poetry Café in London, and in Paxos in Greece, plus at various venues across the U.K. In 2019 Matt was one of the winners of the Naji Naaman Literary Honours Prize for complete works, and his second full collection Woodworm (Hedgehog Poetry Press) was published in July 2019. Matt also has a slim collection of twenty-five new poems called The Kingdom due out from Maytree Press in April/May 2020.
Poetry at Pembroke: Matt Duggan
PAST EVENT | 23 October 2019 18:00
Poetry at Pembroke will return in Michaelmas 2019! The 'In the Pink' poetry series will commence weekly at 6pm on Wednesdays. The first reading will feature Matt Duggan.
Matt Duggan was born in 1971 and lives in Bristol. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The Potomac Review, Here Comes Everybody, Marble Poetry Magazine, Osiris Poetry Journal, Dodging the Rain, The Blue Nib, Into the Void, International Times, Foxtrot Uniform, The Journal, Confluence, The Dawntreader, The High Window, The Ghost City Review, L’Ephemere Review, Lakeview International Literary Journal, and Levure Litteraire. Matt won the Erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2015 with his first full collection of poems Dystopia 38.10, and became one of five core members at Erbacce-Press, where he interviews poets for the erbacce-journal, and organises events and reads with the other members for the annual erbacce prize.
In 2017 Matt won the Into the Void Poetry Prize with his poem “Elegy for Magdalene”, and read his work across the east coast of the U.S.A. with readings at the Cambridge Public Library Poetry Series in Boston, a guest poet appearance at The Parkside Lounge c/o George Wallace and Sip This in New York. Matt read at his first U.S. book launch in Philadelphia and has two pamphlets available: One Million Tiny Cuts (Clare Song Birds Publishing House) and A Season in Another World (Thirty West Publishing House), plus a small limited edition booklet The Feeding ( Rum Do Press). He has read his work across the world including The Poetry on the Lake Festival in Orta, Italy, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, The Poetry Café in London, and in Paxos in Greece, plus at various venues across the U.K. In 2019 Matt was one of the winners of the Naji Naaman Literary Honours Prize for complete works, and his second full collection Woodworm (Hedgehog Poetry Press) was published in July 2019. Matt also has a slim collection of twenty-five new poems called The Kingdom due out from Maytree Press in April/May 2020.