Prof Matthew Francis
BA, MA (Cantab) PhD (Southampton)

Chair
Department of English & Creative Writing
Contact Details
- Email: mwf@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-7771-607X
- Office: D65, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622469
- Personal Website: http://7greenhill.webs.com/
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
Lecturer
- WL10420 - Introduction to Poetry
- WRM6140 - Writer as Practitioner 1
- WRM6240 - Writer as Professional
- WR30040 - The Writing Project
- WR21120 - Telling True Stories: ways of Writing Creative Non-Fiction
- WR20620 - Writing Selves
- WRM6060 - Writer as Practitioner 2
- WR32820 - Humour and Conflict in Contemporary Writing
Coordinator
Creative writing at MA and PhD level.
Research
Best-known as a poet, Matthew is also a novelist, short story writer and critic, with an interest in twentieth-century and contemporary poetry and fiction, and in particular the twentieth-century Scottish poet W.S. Graham.
Publications
Francis, M 2022, Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City. Taylor & Francis. 10.4324/9781003080336
Francis, M 2020, Wing. Faber and Faber, London.
Francis, M 2019, 'Hiawatha and the Earwig: Rediscovering a Metre', New Writing. 10.1080/14790726.2019.1601235
Francis, M & Graham, WS 2018, W.S. Graham: New Selected Poems. Faber and Faber, London.
Francis, M 2017, 'Rewriting the Mabinogi', New Writing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1-11. 10.1080/14790726.2017.1403457
More publications on the Research Portal