MATT SOWERBY
MATT SOWERBY
Writer. Educator. Performer. Activist.
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Matt Sowerby is a writer and environmental activist, working to find hopeful approaches to living in a climate crisis. His is the winner of the highly prestigious 2024 Nature Chronicles Prize for his essay ‘Hope is the Thing with Flippers’.
As a performance poet, Matt has earned the titles of 2018 National Youth Slam Champion & 2023 National University Slam Champion. He has performed in the Houses of Parliament & on BBC Radio 3, and his work has been exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Matt has partnered with the British Library, NBC Universal, Paines Plough, the Open University, & Lancaster University.
Matt is the Programmes and Community Officer at The Resilience Project, helping young climate changemakers find their peace, their power, and their people. He is also the Climate Action Lead on the National Trust’s Regional Advisory Group (North England).
POETRY VIDEOS
POETRY VIDEOS
Tea | a poem by Matt Sowerby
Breadlines by Matt Sowerby
TESTIMONIALS
"AN EXCITING AND ENGAGING POET WHOSE WORK IS CHARACTERISED BY MUSICALITY, PASSION AND BELIEF IN THE POWER OF LANGUAGE AS A FORCE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AND JUSTICE."
KIM MOORE
“HAD THE ENTIRE AUDIENCE UTTERLY RAPT. IF YOU SEE HIM PERFORMING ANYWHERE NEAR YOU, GO AND SEE!"
KATIE HALE
"ONE OF THE HARDEST WORKING
YOUNG POETS I KNOW. HE CARES DEEPLY ... AND CHANNELS THAT CARE, ALONGSIDE HIS TALENT, INTO BOTH ART AND ACTION.
WORTH LISTENING TO ATTENTIVELY."
BOHDAN PIASECKI
"A VOICE THAT IS BOTH INSIGHTFUL AND REFRESHING. A NAME WELL WORTH TAKING NOTE OF."
ROGER ROBINSON