Lunch and Poetry with Matt Howard

Matt Howard will read from his new collection ‘Broadlands’. This event is sponsored by ‘The Listening Room’ poetry group. Come and join us for poetry and lunch!

Matt is manager of the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. His first collection, Gall, was published by The Rialto in 2018 and was winner of the 2018 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize in 2019, and won Best First Collection in the inaugural Laurel Prize 2020. After eleven years working for the RSPB, Matt was Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds from 2021-2023. His second collection, Broadlands, is published by Bloodaxe.

"The world that emerges from his marvellous poems does so like a dragonfly from its larval case - strange, fresh, intensely vulnerable. His deep-rooted knowledge of this part of the world lights up poem after poem.” - Esther Morgan

With many thanks to Councillor Carmina McConnell for generous support from the District Council Ward Grant.