'Musical, maddening, irresistible poems'

A recent review in The Guardian has described Matthew Welton's latest poetry pamphlet Waffles as 'a set of musical, maddening, irresistible poems'.

Poet and critic, Paul Batchelor, highlighted Welton's 'highly original approach to form':

'The poems in Waffles form interconnecting grids of repetition and parallelism, and cadences ricochet as in an echo chamber: "A yellow swallow hollers in / a hollow yellow willow tree" becomes "A yellow yaffle snaffles up / a pile of apple waffles". Constructivist poems can be as joyless as equations, but Waffles is too playful and too curious about the world for that: "I think that what I'm saying with the words I use / is stuff which, by the sound of things, I might not mean."'

Waffles is published by Egg Box Publishing.