Matthew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich, and now lives in London. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), and editor of the Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011). He is Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book) and for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Ground Water was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His second book-length collection, Earth House, was published by Bloodaxe in 2023 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023. His biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011), won the Costa Biography Award, the H.W. Fisher Biography Award and a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, and was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Biography of the Year. His second "biography", The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, was published by Faber in 2022. Matthew Hollis was Poetry Editor at Faber from 2012 to 2023.

• I1. Causeway 52. The Sea Stick 63. Beck 84. Wastwater 95. A White Hart at Sykeside 106. All there ever is 127. Call 138. Stones 149. The Long Snow 21Lone 22II1. Anglia 272. Iken 283. A Harnser for James 294. Winterton Ness 325. I will lift up my eyes 346. Where narrow water widens 367. The Island 378. Rooks 389. The Staithe 41Deor 42III1. The Blackbird of Spitalfields 472. The Diomedes 483. Commute 494. Losing Time 505. Animal 526. The Collect 547. The Fox Runner 568. Leaves 579. A Bluebird for Rose 67Wulf 68IV1. West 712. A Red Hairband in Iveragh 723. Cara 744. Four Roads 755. Landlock 766. The Mansion 787. Hedge Bird 798. Havener 809. Headland 89Ruin 90Place notes 93

It’s taken Matthew Hollis 19 years to produce a successor to his debut collection, Ground Water, but Earth House was worth the wait. Well-nigh elemental in their evocation of time and landscape, the poems can have the effect of making their human protagonists look frail, marginal visitants to an indifferent world. At other times, particularly when Hollis returns to his native East Anglia, they are consummate exercises in psychogeography, where, however ancient the terrain, the people lead the dance.

Matthew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich, and now lives in London. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), and editor of the Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011). He is Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book) and for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Ground Water was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His second book-length collection, Earth House, was published by Bloodaxe in 2023 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023. His biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011), won the Costa Biography Award, the H.W. Fisher Biography Award and a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, and was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Biography of the Year. His second "biography", The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, was published by Faber in 2022. Matthew Hollis was Poetry Editor at Faber from 2012 to 2023.

• I1. Causeway 52. The Sea Stick 63. Beck 84. Wastwater 95. A White Hart at Sykeside 106. All there ever is 127. Call 138. Stones 149. The Long Snow 21Lone 22II1. Anglia 272. Iken 283. A Harnser for James 294. Winterton Ness 325. I will lift up my eyes 346. Where narrow water widens 367. The Island 378. Rooks 389. The Staithe 41Deor 42III1. The Blackbird of Spitalfields 472. The Diomedes 483. Commute 494. Losing Time 505. Animal 526. The Collect 547. The Fox Runner 568. Leaves 579. A Bluebird for Rose 67Wulf 68IV1. West 712. A Red Hairband in Iveragh 723. Cara 744. Four Roads 755. Landlock 766. The Mansion 787. Hedge Bird 798. Havener 809. Headland 89Ruin 90Place notes 93

It’s taken Matthew Hollis 19 years to produce a successor to his debut collection, Ground Water, but Earth House was worth the wait. Well-nigh elemental in their evocation of time and landscape, the poems can have the effect of making their human protagonists look frail, marginal visitants to an indifferent world. At other times, particularly when Hollis returns to his native East Anglia, they are consummate exercises in psychogeography, where, however ancient the terrain, the people lead the dance.

Matthew Hollis was born in 1971 in Norwich, and now lives in London. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), and editor of the Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011). He is Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection Ground Water (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book) and for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Ground Water was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His second book-length collection, Earth House, was published by Bloodaxe in 2023 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023. His biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011), won the Costa Biography Award, the H.W. Fisher Biography Award and a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, and was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Biography of the Year. His second "biography", The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, was published by Faber in 2022. Matthew Hollis was Poetry Editor at Faber from 2012 to 2023.

• I1. Causeway 52. The Sea Stick 63. Beck 84. Wastwater 95. A White Hart at Sykeside 106. All there ever is 127. Call 138. Stones 149. The Long Snow 21Lone 22II1. Anglia 272. Iken 283. A Harnser for James 294. Winterton Ness 325. I will lift up my eyes 346. Where narrow water widens 367. The Island 378. Rooks 389. The Staithe 41Deor 42III1. The Blackbird of Spitalfields 472. The Diomedes 483. Commute 494. Losing Time 505. Animal 526. The Collect 547. The Fox Runner 568. Leaves 579. A Bluebird for Rose 67Wulf 68IV1. West 712. A Red Hairband in Iveragh 723. Cara 744. Four Roads 755. Landlock 766. The Mansion 787. Hedge Bird 798. Havener 809. Headland 89Ruin 90Place notes 93

It’s taken Matthew Hollis 19 years to produce a successor to his debut collection, Ground Water, but Earth House was worth the wait. Well-nigh elemental in their evocation of time and landscape, the poems can have the effect of making their human protagonists look frail, marginal visitants to an indifferent world. At other times, particularly when Hollis returns to his native East Anglia, they are consummate exercises in psychogeography, where, however ancient the terrain, the people lead the dance.