The Writers of Wales Database

MORDEN, MATT

Website: http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/eng/uk/m.morden.htm
Blogspot: http://mordenhaikupoetry.blogspot.com/

Matt was born in Usk, Monmouthshire in 1962. His haiku and senryu have appeared in magazines, books and newspapers around the world. Matt became the Associate Editor for John Barlow’s Snapshots magazine in 2000 and was the winner of The Independent’s 2002 haiku competition. He lives in West Wales with his family, works as a local government officer, and enjoys cycling and canoeing. Most days, he tries to find wabi-sabi moments in the world around him. When he does, they appear on his blogspot.

Reviews:
With respect to Stumbles in the Clover (Snapshot Press, 2007): 

”..These seventy-two haiku - with not a makeweight among them - are instinct with the ‘loneliness, tenderness and slenderness’ that Tony Conran has characterised as the essence of haiku. They are as spare and translucent as it’s possible to be, yet they are deeply affecting (especially the family-based poems) and, particularly when in senryu mode, wryly humourous…”
Nigel Jenkins


Selected Publications: 
A Dark Afternoon (Snapshot Press, 2000)
Stumbles in the Clover (Snapshot Press, 2007)  

Contributed to:
The New Haiku (contributor) (Snapshot Press, 2002)
A New Resonance (contributor) (Red Moon Press, 2002)
the loose thread (contributor) (Red Moon Press, 2002)