Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Poetic Obituaries: [Geoff] Stevens published many small

collections of work during his lifetime, but it was in 2004 that his first major collection, The Phrenology of Anaglypta was published, this was followed by A Keelhauling through Ireland and Islands in the Blood. His last collection Sleeping With You and Other Night-time Adventures came out in November, 2011.

In 1976 Mr Stevens met Olive Hyatt, at the Dudley Writers Group and they started the Purple Patch Magazine--described by the Guardian newspaper as a national treasure.

from Express & Star: Tributes to poet Geoff Stevens following his death at 69

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