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Recent Saturday Live panda poem, Two Lovely Black Eyes, is now in the archive.

I’m on twitter, @mattharvey4

Interview with writer Tim Kevan on his BabyBarista site.

Upcoming Dates

JANUARY
25th Shipton Gorge, Dorset. Artsreach
27th Green Extravaganza, Totnes Civic Hall, with Jackie Juno and Clive Pig
28th Martinstown, Dorset. Artsreach

FEBRUARY
4th Calstock Arts, The Old Chapel, Calstock PL18 9QX, Tel. 01822 833183
8th Dartington Hall, The Funding Network charity do
9th Lifton, Villages In Action
11th Saturday Live, BBC Radio 4, 9-10am
23rd Blue Walnut, Torquay
24th Ermington, Villages In Action
25th Coffinswell, Villages In Action

See Events page for further dates

Matt’s latest book Where Earwigs Dare was published by Green Books in 2010. For book enquiries please contact: Stacey Despard on 01803 863260 or stacey@greenbooks.co.uk

About Matt

Writer, poet, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, Matt’s way with words has taken him from Totnes to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships via Saturday Live, the Edinburgh Festival and the Work section of the Guardian. He is host of Wondermentalist – Radio 4’s comedy-infused, musically enhanced interactive poetry cabaret – and author of The Hole in the Sum of my Parts (Poetry Trust) and Where Earwigs Dare (Green Books). He is married, with one wife. They have two sons.

“Very funny…” Independent
“...not only funny but tender and true” Guardian
“fabulously understated” Dorset Echo

Matt is the creator of Empath Man, who had his own mini-series on Radio 4 – “Very funny, very satirical” The Times – and his recent Edinburgh show also garnered excellent reviews – like these from the Fest magazine and allthefestivals.com.

Other News

The Songbook of Unsingable Songs – composer Stephen Deazley ‘s settings of Matt’s words – received rave reviews from the Herald and the Scotsman

Here are some links to recent clips of , The Hug, Torquay Boys and Curtains...

The Open University commissioned Matt to write a poem celebrating their 40th anniversary, and Flavio Ferrari’s short film of Matt’s Centenary Icons poem is on video loop in The Science Museum.

Meanwhile the film on Transition Towns as broadcast on BBC1 South West is on YouTube and the Transition Town podcast is quite good too.
Matt’s first book for kids Shopping with Dad is illustrated by Miriam Latimer and published by Barefoot Books. Meanwhile The Hole in the Sum of my Parts (pub. The Poetry Trust) is in its 4th imprint as David Hughes' illustrations continue to lure people in…