Matthew Francis

Matthew Francis

Matthew Francis is the author of two previous novels, WHOM and The Book of the Needle, and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death. He has published six collections of poetry with Faber and Faber, most recently Wing. His poetry and fiction has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the Ted Hughes Award and the Wales Book of the Year Award, and in 2004 he was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He is the editor of W.S. Graham’s New Collected Poems, and author of a critical study of Graham, Where the People Are. His latest book is Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City. He lives in Wales with his wife, Creina, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.