West Yorkshire, England. Been playing guitar for years. I'm not as good as I should be. I like all sorts of music but mainly Nine Inch Nails.  I can't put all my music in the any specific genre. I'm  experimenting with things at the  moment  Comments and such are welcome as long as you're not a spammer (you know who you are).

Man with a conscience, poet with a plan overcoming personal challenges the best way he can.

Matthew is a poet originally from Leeds but currently in exile on the Isle of Lewis.

Matthew first performed in 2014 but later that year the wheels fell off and he moved to stay with family after the loss of his Mum and his own struggles with Depression and severe anxiety and panic attack disorder. 

The last few years has seen him trying to make his way through recovery from that difficult time which saw him have a break down. He received a further setback in 2017 when he was diagnosed with NEAD which causes him to have regular seizures. Despite the latest setback he is determined to get back to his first love of performing poetry and has several gigs booked for a trip to England. during April/May. 

The writing process has not been as easy as it had been for him in the past due to his ongoing health trouble, but he is working towards producing enough quality material to then look for a publisher for his first collection.

Much of his writing is focused around the subject of people, often those facing hardship or some challenge to overcome. He writes at times from personal experience or from observations of the lives of others. He writes with honesty and empathy and his poems are often filled with emotion. He is a frequent swearer but will never offer apology for this as he writes the way he speaks and that can be very raw.

“He delivers a mixture of dark humour, philosophical musings, and concrete imagery with real venom” (Sabateur award winner Steve Nash)

Upcoming Gig Dates
26th April - Unity Words, Wakefield (Open Mic)
4th May - Spoken Weird, Victorian Craft Beer Cafe, Halifax (Support)
8th May - Evidently, Salford (Open Mic)
11th May - Poetry and a Pint, Cafe Lux, Pudsey (Headlining)
18th May - Away With Words, Union Mash Up, Hull (Open Mic)

Performance poet and writer.
Passionate about issues on gender, the LGB&T community and older people.

Male Vocalist trained in Musical Theatre and Tribute Act to Elton John . I have worked extensively throughout the U.K. and abroad in Hotels, Corporate Events, Weddings, Bars, clubs and Private Functions.

A new EP '11:11' is available now on Spotify & Apple Music.

The EP, 'I Never Had it to Lose' is available now.  Search 'The Lennon Tree'.

Hailing from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Simon writes and performs poetry that blends a healthy mixture of Northern humour with a lashing of punk attitude and a dash of kitchen sink realism with topics that range from the experiences of working in retail and life in a small market town right through to tall tales in Brooklyn bars and tributes to fallen Angels.

I'm a poet working across the UK and straddling the border between literary poetry and poetry for performance. The selection here offers some 'proper' poems (The Shipwright's Love Song, Last) but also some more lightweight ones. I used to work as an archaeologist and I now live on a boat - so these things too are reflected in the content of my poetry. 

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