Matthew Hollett

Matthew Hollett is a Canadian writer and photographer from Newfoundland and Labrador. He won the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize for his poem Tickling the Scar.

Biography

Matthew Hollett is from Pasadena, Newfoundland and Labrador. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree, and has taught at Grenfell Campus in Corner Brook.[1] He began to pursue a career in writing after moving to St. John's.[1] His first book, Album Rock, was published in 2018 by Boulder Publications.[2] He received the 2017 NCLU Fresh Fish Award for Optic Nerve, a poetry collection about sight and photography which had not yet been published.[2] Optic Nerve was published by Brick Books in 2023.[3]

Hollett was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2016 for his poem Merchant Vessel and Bomb Crater Behind Vimy Station.[4] In 2017, he was longlisted for the CBC Nonfiction Prize for Painting the Curlew.[5] Hollett was the winner of the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize for his poem Tickling the Scar.[6] He was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize again in 2024 for his poem After Icebergs.[7]

Publications

Books

  • Hollett, Matthew (2018). Album Rock: Looking Back Through the Lens of Paul-Émile Miot. Portugal Cove–St. Philip's, NL: Boulder Publications. ISBN 978-1-7752-3455-5. OCLC 1080210314.
  • — (2023). Optic Nerve: Poems. Kingston, ON: Brick Books. ISBN 978-1-7713-1599-9. OCLC 1346213936.[8]

Articles

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Crocker (2018).
  2. ^ a b CBC Books (2020).
  3. ^ Open Book (2023).
  4. ^ CBC Books (2023b).
  5. ^ CBC Books (2017).
  6. ^ CBC Books (2020); Mann (2020); Waterman (2020).
  7. ^ CBC Books (2024).
  8. ^ CBC Books (2023a); Kidd (2023); Sullivan (2023).

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Further reading

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