Matt Bryden

Matt Bryden is an EFL teacher, which has taken him to Tuscany, The Czech Republic and Poland. His first collection Boxing the Compass was published in 2013. Night Porter, which documents life in a Yorkshire hotel, was a winner of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet competition in 2010.

His versions of the Taiwanese poet Ami have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and the full collection The Desire to Sing after Sunset, published with facing Chinese and English texts in 2013.

In 2012, he toured The Captain’s Tower, an anthology of poetry about Bob Dylan, at venues across the UK including the Latitude festival.

Includes open mic.