Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Matthew Paul

  • Two poems by Matthew Paul

    Two poems by Matthew Paul

    Photo by Thomas Verbruggen on Unsplash A Short History of Greenhouses In the end, my father’s greenhouse was shipwreckedBy ivy, which spiralled round bamboo canes, stuckLike octopus suckers glued to […]

  • Measured economy: ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’ by Matthew Stewart

    Measured economy: ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’ by Matthew Stewart

    Matthew Paul Admirers of Matthew Stewart’s first collection, The Knives of Villalejo (Eyewear, 2017), will undoubtedly remember how its intense, tightly compressed poems navigated the overlaps and tensions between memories […]

  • Two poems by Matthew Paul

    Two poems by Matthew Paul

    Frans Ruiter on Unsplash           Brian Clough in the Rijksmuseum   I had four beautiful days in Amsterdam. The weather was gorgeous, the sights were just absolutely […]

  • Two poems by Matthew Paul

    Two poems by Matthew Paul

    Chris Balderstone in action for Carlisle United and England           The Last Corinthians   for Ann and Peter Sansom   A cricket bat slumped at the back […]