Matt Duggan is our most recent recruit to the team and is responsible for advising new poets with regard to performing, book-launching and organising readings, he is the author of the prize-winning poetry collection Dystopia 38.10 and is a well known poet on the circuit; Matt is also a judge on the panel for the erbacce-prize. He is Bristol-based and joined erbacce in 2016.

Born in 1971 Matt lives in Bristol in the U.K. with his partner Kelly his poems have appeared in many journals across the world such as Osiris Poetry Journal, Ink, Sweat, and Tears, The Blue Nib, Into the Void, The Journal, The Dawntreader, Midnight Lane Boutique, Anti—Heroin Chic Journal, The High Window, A Restricted View from Under the Hedge, Ghost City Review, Laldy Literary Journal, L’ Ephemere Review, Carillion, Lakeview International Literary Journal, Levure Litteraire, erbacce journal, The Stray Branch, Prole, Black Light Engine Room, Militant Thistles, Matt won the erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2015 with his first full collection of poems Dystopia 38.10 and became one of six core members at erbacce-press.

In 2017 Matt won the Into the Void Poetry Prize with his poem Elegy for Magdalene, and read his work across the east - coast of the U.S.A. with readings at the prestigious Cambridge Public Library Poetry Series in Boston, a guest poet appearance at The Parkside Lounge and Sip This in New York, and also read at his first U.S. book launch in Philadelphia. Matt has two new chapbooks available One Million Tiny Cuts (Clare Song Birds Publishing House) and A Season in Another World (Thirty West Publishing House) plus a small limited edition booklet The Feeding ( Rum Do Press) Venice and London. He has also read his work at Poetry on the Lake Festival in Orta, Italy, at the Poetry Café in London, in Paxos in Greece, and at various venues across the U.K. he runs and hosts his own poetry events and was highly commended in the Road to Clevedon Pier Poetry Anthology Competition, his second full collection Woodworm (Hedgehog Poetry Press) is due in Spring 2019. Matt has also been asked to judge a new poetry competition called ‘Songs for Lenin and McCarthy, poems inspired by protest in the form of Lennon and McCartney songs.