Matthew Francis (born 20 November 1956 in Hampshire, United Kingdom) is a British poet, editor of W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems,[1] and a professor at the Aberystwyth University.
After his time spent in the computer industry, he went back to university to study the work of W. S. Graham.
[1][3] Amy Wack of Poetry Wales categorized his writing by saying, "Francis's style is clever ebullient, pacey, often brilliant.
His short story collection Singing a Man to Death was shortlisted in the fiction category of the Wales Book of the Year in 2013.
[4] In addition to his poetry, Francis also writes on W. S. Graham[5] and Sir John Mandeville[6]