Matt Merritt
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Come to Word Power, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh this Saturday for a feast of fine verse. The reading starts at 12 noon sharp, finishes at 1pm. And it’s free! We’ll all have books for sale. Matt Merritt lives near Leicester. His first collection, Troy Town, was published in March 2008 by Arrowhead Press and
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Another review! It seems to be my collection’s weekend for reviews, especially ones with a HappenStance connection: Matt Merritt has just posted a wonderfully thoughtful, warm and generous appreciation of The Ambulance Box (the first link above). I’m indebted to him. Matt and I will be reading with Rob A Mackenzie and James W Wood
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Mick Imlah, Kathryn Simmonds and Don Paterson. No real surprise on the main Forward prize and possibly not an enormous surprise on the best poem prize, but Kathyrn Simmonds’s win in the best first collection category seems to have been unexpected. To be honest, I can’t really comment, not having read any of the winners
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Four poems by Matt Merritt, whose fine HappenStance pamphlet Making the Most of the Light came out in 2005 and whose first full collection Troy Town was published by Arrowhead earlier this year, have just been added to Alex Pryce’s fantastic PoetCasting website. Well worth a listen. PoetCasting itself has just had some good very
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It seems Matt Merritt will be recorded for Poetcasting at some point in the autumn. Alex Pryce, the brain behind the project, is planning a trip to Scotland in the summer and I’m hoping to be recorded. Perhaps HappenStance is poised for (virtual) world domination …
Amy Jo Philip 