Matthew Gregory

Matthew Gregory’s poems appeared in Salt’s Best British Poetry 2011 and the Bloodaxe anthology Dear World and Everyone in It. He received an Eric Gregory award in 2010.

Two Poems

Matthew Gregory, 7 March 2013

A Room at the Grand Hotel des Roches Noires, 1971

Madame likes to air the double she takes for eight weeks on the sea-facing east wing.

She has written twelve postcards to Brussels in a month.

Her tone – La mer est jolie – is light and blasé though she counts six instances of the word...

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