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Mat Riches

is ITV’s poet-in-residence (they don’t know this). His work’s been in a number of journals and magazines, most recently New Statesman, Wild Court, The High Window and Finished Creatures. He co-runs the Rogue Strands poetry evenings, reviews for SphinxReview, The High Window and London Grip, and has a pamphlet due out from Red Squirrel Press in 2023. He’s on Twitter as @matriches and blogs at Wear The Fox Hat.

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    Let trigons be trigons

    Book Review: Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance Press, 2021)
    Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text

    Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

    Book Review: Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird
    Front cover of book 'When I Think of my Body as a Horse' by Wendy Pratt, showing a horse with musculature visible

    Body, you are beautiful, you are beautiful

    Book Review: Mat Riches reviews When I Think of my Body as a Horse by Wendy Pratt (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
    Visions of Juana

    Visions of Juana

    Book Review: Mat Riches reviews Citadel by Martha Sprackland (Liverpool University Press, 2020)
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    You can never know for certain whose head you’re in

    Book Review: Mat Riches reviews RENDANG by Will Harris (Granta Books, 2020), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020
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