Drunk as a Poet on Payday | Matthew Francis

Matthew Francis

February 26, 2026 / 34:19/E25 Download MP3

The show's first overseas guest! I'm delighted to present my conversation with poet Matthew Francis, who joins me from his home in Wales to talk about his new book, The Green Month, a rendering of the Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, one of the most important figures in Welsh poetry. Matthew Francis, besides his work with Welsh poets, is the author of the poetry collections Blizzard, Dragons, Muscovy, Mandeville, among others, and works of fiction, including, The Book of the Needle and Nocturne with Gaslamps, and he edited W. S. Graham’s New Collected Poems.

Pick up a copy of The Green Month here.

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Jason Gray is the author of the poetry collections Radiation King and Photographing Eden. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Image, and elsewhere.

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