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Tickets for the two July 15th BBC Radio 4 recordings of the Wondermentalist Cabaret at Ways With Words are available now. For free. Right here
Matt and composer Thomas Hewitt Jones have finished their song cycle ‘The Same Flame’ commissioned by Churchill Music in Somerset. The work will receive its first performance on July 8th.
STOP PRESS: The Same Flame to be published by Boosey and Hawkes.
The Little Book of Monsters website is now ‘live’. The premiere of this song cycle by Stephen Deazley and Matt Harvey takes place at the St Magnus International Festival in Orkney on June 27th, where it will be sung by the massed choir of Orkney Primary schools.
Spoof Valentine’s Day poem, commissioned by the Energy Ombudsman
Most recent Saturday Live poems, Caolila, for Justin and Linda Ruthven-Tyers, and a panda poem, Two Lovely Black Eyes. Matt will be back on Saturday Live on 28 April.
Say hello on twitter, @mattharvey4
Upcoming Dates
MAY
15th Whitecross Village Hall, with Tanya Davis, wonderful Canadian poet/songwriter, for Carn to Cove |
16th Launceston Town Hall, Supporting Tanya Davis, for Carn to Cove
17th The White Hart, Ivybridge, Supporting Tanya Davis, for Villages in Action
18th Meavy Parish Hall, Supporting Tanya Davis, for Villages in Action
JUNE
2nd Poetry on the Border, Chepstow, with Peter Finch
See Events page for further dates
Latest book Where Earwigs Dare (Green Books)
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...
Interview with writer Tim Kevan on his BabyBarista site.
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…