Poetic Obituaries: [Geoff Stevens] also began a long interest

in reading poetry in public. 1976 saw the inception of his own poetry magazine, Purple Patch, which passed its 100th edition in June 2001 and celebrated its 30th year in 2006. Other magazines he has edited are Purple Pastiche (poetry and art), S-Fest Ltd. (U.K. Editor of U.S.Lit mag.), Micropress Midlands Poetry, and one guest issue of South magazine. He was a founder member of Spouting Forth poetry performance and publication group in the 90′s and, with Brendan Hawthorne, started the Poetry Wednesbury group of poets in 2002

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from Haggard & Halloo: Geoff Stevens dies

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