Matt Bryden is a poet and teacher living in Somerset. He won the Charroux Memoir Prize and the William Soutar Prize in 2019 and in 2018 received a Literature Matters award from the Royal Society of Literature. He has published a pamphlet Night Porter (Templar), a first collection Boxing the Compass (Templar) and a book of translation The Desire to Sing after Sunset (Showwe). He runs the Somerset Young Poets competition. www.mattbryden.co.uk
