Matt puts unstable dynamite into poetry. It explodes just when you least expect it. Reading's fastest pen, he travels everywhere with his poetry bag and numerous little black books that get rapidly filled with poems in black ink. When he runs out of space in them he writes on scraps of paper and they go into the bag too. He is as at home with a perfectly formed Villanelle as a Fortran program - no wonder they are so hard to write, Villanelles that is. A performance poet through and through, Matt brings a pile driver rhythm to contemporary conceits and concerns.