Julian’s Substack
This is Julian Matthews substack, ideas, thoughts, opinions and poems.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 7, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 10, 2026
Latest issues
Flame Blower (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Flame Blower, first published in Chewers by Masticadores, now in Ipoh Echo https://www.ipohecho.com.my/2026/09/06/poetry-corner-flame-blower/
Fine Lines (opens the original)
Read excerpt
FINE LINES (Draft 3) by Julian MatthewsMy mum may have believed in karma. Once, she had a palm reader drop by to determine my future. He was a scrawny man in a veshti, pencil-thin moustache, and crow’s feet around his sage, all-knowing eyes. He wrote it up in neat Tamil script in a school exercise book (buku latihan), which she kept locked up, and never showed to me again.When I requested for it, much later, she handed it over reluctantly. I was eager to have it translated, only to find she had
Tangerine Dream (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Tangerine Dream, a prose poem by Julian Matthews, first published in Blotters Jotters 2, Scotland, edited by Fin Hall, available on Amazon. Now, in Ipoh Echo https://bit.ly/tangyjulian<div class="image2
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.