Join Matthew Paul at readings around the UK where he will read from his latest collection The Last Corinthians published by Crooked Spire Press in June 2025.
Upcoming Readings
Monday 2nd March, 2026, 7pm: Fountain Poets, King’s Head, 36 High Street, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2AE. The Fountain Poets’ website is here.
Sunday 3rd May, 2026, 6pm: Poetry Performance, The Adelaide, 57 Park Road, Teddington, TW11 0AU.
Past Events
Saturday June 7th 2025: The launch of The Last Corinthians took place at the Dystopia Bar in Doncaster Brewery Tap with Guests Victoria Gatehouse and Ed Reiss.
Photos and feedback on this event are here.
Tuesday June 17th 2025: Matthew read from his collection at The Devereux, 20 Devereux Ct, London, WC2R 3JJ with guests Vanessa Lampert, Ian Parks and Mat Riches.
Photos and information about this event are here.
Tuesday September 16th 2025: Matthew read at Five Leaves Bookshop, 14a Long Row, Nottingham; with guests Kathy Pimlott and Peter Sansom.
Friday 21st November, 2025, 7.30pm: City Screen Picturehouse, Coney Street, York; with Janet Dean and Jane Stockdale, supporting Ian Parks.
Wednesday 26th November, 2025, 7.30pm: Live Poetry At Riverhouse in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey (with Sophie Herxheimer) reading from the collection and in conversation with Katie Griffiths. Plus Open Mic Session.
The Poets
Matthew Paul was born and grew up in South London and lives in South Yorkshire. His first poetry collection,The Evening Entertainment, was published by Eyewear in 2017. Matthew is also the author of two haiku collections, published by Snapshot Press. He writes reviews for The Friday Poem.
Victoria Gatehouse is a poet, zoologist and children’s writer. Her collection The Hawthorn Bride (2024) was published by Indigo Dreams. Her pamphlet The Mechanics of Love (SmithǀDoorstop, 2019) was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy, and she was highly commended for the Gingko Prize, 2023.
Vanessa Lampert is an acupuncturist from Oxfordshire. Her first full collection of poems, Say It With Me, was published by Seren in 2023. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from the Poetry School and Newcastle University.
Ian Parks was born and lives in Mexborough. His Selected Poems 1983–2023 and his versions of poems by Cavafy were published by Calder Valley Poetry. He edited Versions of the North, Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry and the Selected Poems of Harold Massingham.
Kathy Pimlott has three pamphlets with The Emma Press, After the Rites and Sandwiches (2024), Elastic Glue (2019) and Goose Fair Night (2016). Her collection the small manoeuvres was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2022. Born and brought up in Nottingham, she has lived in Covent Garden for nearly 50 years.
Ed Reiss completed a PhD in the School of English, University of Leeds, entitled ‘Geoffrey Hill: Poet of Sequences’. His poetry collection, Your Sort, published by SmithǀDoorstop in 2011, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2011.
Mat Riches is ITV’s unofficial poet-in-residence His pamphlet, Collecting the Data, was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2023. He co-runs the Rogue Strands poetry evenings and blogs at: http://www.matriches76.wordpress.com
Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Carcanet published his first book in 1990. Among more recent titles are Selected Poems, Careful What You Wish For, which won him a Cholmondeley Award in 2016, and Lanyard (2022). With Ann Sansom, he is co-director of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and Smith Doorstop Books.
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