MATTHEW HOLLIS
Presentation:
- “Poetry Reading” (Autumn Semester 2008)
Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe, 2000), and editor of Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011). Now All Roads to France: the Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011) is his first prose book.