Autor/-in: Matt Howard

Matt Howard. was born in Norfolk in 1978. He is a poet and environmentalist who worked in various roles for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for more than a decade. His debut collection Gall. was published by The Rialto in 2018, winning the inaugural Laurel Prize for Best First Collection in 2020 and the 2018 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry, and shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize. His second book-length collection, Broadlands. , is published by Bloodaxe in 2024. Matt co-founded The RSPB and The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition in 2011 and was co-editor of Magma 72 - The Climate Change Issue. He has been poet in residence for both the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the Wordsworth Trust. He was the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds in 2021-23.