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Poet, columnist, enemy of all that’s difficult and upsetting, Matt Harvey performs up and down the country at festivals, cabarets, conferences and colleges. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and to Desktop Poetry in the Guardian’s Work section. He posts regularly on the Wondermentalist blog and podcasts on Traydio.

NEWS: Flavio Ferrari’s short film of Matt’s Centenary Icons poem is on video loop in The Science Museum.
Matt will be at the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, this Summer with his first solo show, Matt Harvey – Wondermentalist. 3.35pm, 6-31st August (not 17th)
A mini-series of Empath Man was broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on BBC Radio 4 from 16-18 June – if you missed it. Meanwhile the film on Transition Towns as broadcast on BBC1 South West in January is now on YouTube and the Transition Town podcast is quite good too. There are also youtube versions of Kippers for Life and Curtains

“Very funny…” Independent
“...not only funny but tender and true” Guardian
“fabulously understated” Dorset Echo

Matt’s latest book, for kids, is Shopping with Dad. It is wonderfully illustrated by Miriam Latimer and published by Barefoot Books.