We’re very excited to be finally introducing our new quarterly Poetry Lecture Series which will launch with esteemed poet and editor Matthew Hollis discussing The Waste Land on Thursday 26 November at 7.30pm.

Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich, UK, in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber & Faber, 2011; W. W. Norton, 2012) won the Costa Biography Award and the H. W. Fisher Biography Prize. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem (Faber and Norton, 022) was a book of the year in the Financial Times, New Statesman and Sunday Times. Earth House (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize for Poetry. He is co-editor of The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber, 2025).