Two Poems by Matt Howard

EARTHSTARS

EXUVIAE SURVEY


You can find a Word accessible version of this poem here.

Matt Howard’s first full collection, Gall, was published by The Rialto in 2018 and was winner of the 2018 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize in 2019 and won Best First Collection in the inaugural Laurel Prize 2020. His second collection, Broadlands is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2024. After eleven years working for the RSPB, Matt was the Douglas Caster Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds 2021 – 2023.