Wing by Matthew Francis Esther Morgan author of Measures of Expatriation

author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize

/ believable: sense / of something withdrawn before fully seen

the deterrent that is still in place today: how it works and how it might fail

confronting his old demons with honesty and courage

Wing by Matthew Francis Esther Morgan author of Measures of ExpatriationMatthew Franciss latest collection celebrates the richness of nature and of our responses to it. The pleasures of summer are emblazoned in the colourful wings and evocative names of butterflies, while a nocturnal encounter with an earwig becomes a joyous incantation to the witchy beetle, forkin robin of dialect. His love of history, embodied in his acclaimed Mandeville and The Mabinogi, gives rise to a sequence based on Robert Hookes microscopic