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Post-it poets: Matt MacDonald

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Flea Circus Open Slam winner Matt MacDonald is based in Edinburgh and blogs at lastmanstanzaing.wordpress.com. He also organises the site specific spoken word shows No Rhyme, No Reason cafebabel.com: What do you want to be when you grow up? Matt MacDonald: Peter Pan

cafebabel.com: What poem would you take to a desert island? Matt MacDonald: Saul Williams’ ‘Black Stacey’

cafebabel.

com: If you ran away, where would you run away to?

Matt MacDonald: Tomorrow

cafebabel.com: Do you have a favourite line or fragment of poetry?

Matt MacDonald: 'There was a night when I learned to say this is my voice. Take it how you want.'

cafebabel.com: What’s the most interesting thing you’ve ever done on a Thursday?

Matt MacDonald: Thursday? I don’t know… Um, I won a pub quiz. But only because I always do that on Thursdays. I mean, I do a pub quiz. Sometimes I win.

cafebabel.com: Suggest a question for next time.

Matt MacDonald: If you were a cheese, what type of cheese would you be and why? With diagrams where appropriate.

cafebabel.com: Draw us a picture.

Matt MacDonald's post-it

Drop by in three weeks' time, when we'll be talking to our next post-it poet, Katy Ewing.