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Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich, UK, in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is co-editor of Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2000) and 101 Poems Against War (Faber & Faber, 2003), and editor of Selected Poems of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011). Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas (Faber, 2011; W. W. Norton, 2012) won the Costa Biography Award and the H. W. Fisher Biography Prize and was Sunday Times Biography of the Year. In 2016 he published limited letterpress and hand-made pamphlets, Stones (Incline Press, 2016) and East (Clutag Press, 2016). Leaves, a pamphlet poem published by Hazel Press in 2020, was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award, and was followed by Havener (Bonnefant Press, 2022). The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem was published in 2022 (Faber; Norton), and was a Book of the Year in the Financial Times, New Statesman and the Sunday Times. Earth House, a volume of poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2023), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize for Poetry, a Book of the Year in the TLS and the Tablet, and was BBC Radio 4 Extra Poetry Book of the Month. His translation of The Seafarer appeared in 2024 (Hazel Press); he is co-editor of The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Faber/FSG, 2025).
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