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Matthew Hollis

Matthew Hollis
Matthew Hollis is the author of Ground Water, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and Now All Roads Lead to France: A Life of Edward Thomas, winner of the Costa Biography Award and a Sunday Times Biography of the Year. He is the poetry editor at Faber & Faber, London, and lives in the United Kingdom. His new book, The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem is available now.


That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T. S. Eliot Wrote “The Waste Land”

“With me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed out.”
January 9, 2023  By Matthew Hollis
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