Matthew Clegg

Biography

I teach on the BA (Hons) Creative Writing programme.   

Research Interest

My creative practice touches on edge-land landscapes, human predicaments (especially the marginalised or disenfranchised), and the relationship between voice, personae and place.   My influences are catholic, including the classics in translation, Romantic, Modernist and contemporary poetry, New Nature Writing and Psychogeography.   I have a special interest in the works of Homer, William Wordsworth, Ted Hughes, Philip Levine, Derek Walcott, Peter Reading, Ferdinand Pessoa and Rebecca Solnit.   I often work in creative collaboration, and have experimented with presenting poetry in alternative formats - through performance, podcast, text installation and art-objects.   I am especially interested in curated performance involving multiple voices, and sound recording in the landscape.