MATTHEW HOLLIS was born in Norwich in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe 2004), his first full-length collection, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He published a pamphlet, The Boy on the Edge of Happiness, with Smith/Doorstop in 1996 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe, 2000), and works as an editor at Faber and Faber. He is Writer-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
'Hollis writes a knowing, lyrical poetry set against a landscape of big skies and battened-down horizons. He combines worldly wisdom with more detailed, vernacular understanding to produce poems that speak with a sense of purpose and place'
Simon Armitage
Hear Here!Hear Here!, the UK's first classical music listening project, presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Classic FM, launches live, online and on air from 1st January 2008. To mark the occasion, a new poem has been commissioned from Matthew Hollis, which can be read and heard by clicking here.
Trees in the City ProjectIn 2007, Lloyd's of London and Poet in the City commissioned Patience Agbabi, John Burnside and Matthew Hollis to write a suite about climate change. To read, listen to, or download the poems click here.
Tues 8 January 2008, 8pmCAMBRIDGE, Cambridgeshire
CB1 Poetry with Emily Dening
Details: Michaelhouse Trinity Street CB2 1SU
cb1poetry@fastmail.fm
http://www.cb1poetry.org.uk
Mon 4–Sun 10 February 2008DHAKA, Bangladesh
New Silk Route Creative Writing Workshop
with Bernardine Evaristo
Details: Masud Hossain, tel +88 (0)2 861 8905-7
Masud.Hossain@bd.britishcouncil.org
http://www.britishcouncil.org
Tue 11–Wed 12 March 2008ATHENS, Greece
Converging Lines
with Julia Copus, Antony Dunn, and Clare Pollard
Details: Mary Haroyianni, tel +30 210 369 2318
mary.haroyianni@britishcouncil.gr
http://www.britishcouncil.org
Fri 14 March 2008, 5pmST ANDREWS, Fife
Stanza Poetry Festival
with Jane Duran
Details: Parliament Hall, South Street, £6.50/£5.50
info@stanzapoetry.org
http://www.stanzapoetry.org
Sat 31 May 2008, 6pmLONDON, South Bank Centre
Notes into Letters
with Maura Dooley, Paul Farley, Daljit Nagra, Ruth Padel,
DBC Pierre, Christopher Reid and Lemn Sissay
Details: The Clore Ballroom, tel 0871 663 2500
customer@southbankcentre.co.uk
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk
Sat 6 September 2008, 6.15pmNORWICH, University of East Anglia, Elizabeth Fry Building
Poetry After Sebald
with Lavinia Greenlaw and George Szirtes
Details: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, tel 01603 456161
l.stonebridge@uea.ac.uk
http://www.uea.ac.uk/LyndseyStonebridge
Weds 8 October 2008LUMB BANK, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire
Arvon Foundation
Details: Steve & Caron May, tel 01422 843714
l-bank@arvonfoundation.org
http://www.arvonfoundation.org
Thur 30 October 2008, 7pmBELFAST, Queen's University
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry
with Christopher Reid
Details: tel 028 9097 1070
shc@qub.ac.uk
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHeaneyCentreforPoetry
Tues 18 November, 2008, 5pmBRIGHTON, University of Sussex
Details: Professor Peter Abbs, tel 01273 872597
P.F.Abbs@sussex.ac.uk
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/profile1.html
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