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 Radio 4’s Wondermentalist Cabaret and creator of Empath Man. Books include The Hole in the Sum of my Parts, Where Earwigs Dare and Mindless Body Spineless Mind and, for children, Shopping With Dad and Beastie and the Boys. With Stephen Deazley he wrote song cycles A Little Book of Monsters and The Songbook of Unsingable Songs and with Thomas Hewitt Jones the musical Rumpelstiltskin.

His latest collection Sit! – with artist Claudia Schmid – came out with Unicorn in 2020, a German version Sitz! was published this month. Their new collaboration, Careless Whisker, will be out before Christmas. Matt was nominated for a P.E.A. Award for The Element in the Room – energy-inspired poems written while Poet-in-Residence with RegenSW and was recently commissioned by ITM Power to write about Green Hydrogen.

“Very funny…” – Independent

“…not only funny but tender and true” – Guardian

“fabulously understated” – Dorset Echo