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Content of Geoff Stevens’ Publications Page BIOGRAPHY
Geoff Stevens was born on the 4th June, 1942, at West Bromwich, in the industrial midlands of England that is known as The Black Country. It was at that time a mixture of industrial, post-industrial, and countryside in minature, a unique rich admixture. He was initially a successful pupil at school, but his later schooling was for boys only, operated six days a week, and was both constrictive and restrictive, and he rebelled against it. On leaving, he got a job as an industrial chemist and studied part-time for academic qualifications. Chemistry was to be his occupation until 1995, and he worked in the chemical manufacturing, paint making, electroplating, bicycle, and closure industries. Local history and custom was also an interest and he began to write about those and on other subjects for journals and newspapers, and also became Director of Industrial Archaeology for The Black Country Society. In the 1970's, inspired by local versifiers, and then by reading Dylan Thomas, he began to write poetry and to submit it to magazines, until he was eventually succesful in getting it published. He also began a long interest in reading poetry in public. 1976 saw the inception of his own poetry magazine, Purple Patch, which celebrates its 25th. year and 100th. edition in June 2001. Other magazines he has edited are Purple Pastiche
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.
1970's First wrote poetry (in Black Country dialect). 1970's Read poetry locally, mainly Dudley Poetry Centre. 1975-78 Edited poetry column (Poetaster) in The Circular, West Midlands newspaper. 1976 - to date Editor of Purple Patch poetry magazine. Also published Purple Pastiche (poetry and art) and The Firing Squad (protest poetry). 1995-2001 U.K. Editor of S-Fest Literary Magazine (USA). 1997 Awarded Hastings Poetry Festival Prize for Services to Poetry. 1999 Organised the Purple Patch Poetry Convention 1996-8 Edited Midlands Micropress Poetry. 2001 Organised the Purple Patch Poetry Convention. 2001 Co-organiser of Poetry Wednesbury monthly reading venues. 2004 Founder member of Unleaded Petrels performance poetry group.
Published poetry as at September 1st 2003: The Arcadian, Advance, The Affectionate Punch, Agog, Ah Pook Is Here, Aireings, Albert Poets Anthology, And What Of Tomorrow, Apostrophe, The Arcadian, Art for Aldridge (anthology), At Last, Awen, Axiom, Babby Bubble, The Banshee, Bard, Bardonni, Blackberrying Anthology (Black Country Society), Blackcountry Bugle, The Blackcountryman, The Black Mountain Review, Bogg, Bogger's All, The Book Advertiser, Borderlines, Boundary, Bound Spiral, Braquemand, Brass Butterfly, Breathe, Brunswick Poets Anthology, Bull, Candelabrum, Carillon, Cencrastus, Chronicles Of Disorder, The Circular, Coffee House, Connections (London), Connections (Kent), Creative Tales, Crystal, Curlew, Current Accounts, Cyclops, Dandelion, Death's Door, Desire, Dial 174, Diversion, Doors, Eavesdropper, Eclipse, Eco Runes, 84, End of Millenium, Envoi, Exe-Calibre, Exile, Expressions, Fabric, Fantasia Anthology, Farrago, Feh!, Fingertips, Fire, The Firing Squad, First Time, Folio International, Foolscap, The Forbidden Fruit Anthology, Frogmore Papers, Garbaj, Geek Love, The Good Society Review, Great Outdoors Anthology, Hammering it Home Anthology (Thursdays),Handshake, Handsworth Festival Anthology, Hat, Headlock, Helicon, Hicku Anthology, Hooligan Heart, Huddersfield Examiner, Hybrid, Inclement, Illuminations, Inkshed, Interactions,Interpreter's House, Iota, Issue One, Jewels and Binoculars Anthology (Headland), The Journal, Journal of Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, Kickin' & Screamin', Konfluence, Krax, Lexicon, Links, Living Poets, Longstone, The Magazine, Magazing, Magpie's Nest, Main Street Journal, Manifold, Markings, Melodic Scribble, Memes, Micropress Midlands Poetry, Midnight Oil, Mind Ground, Momentum, Monas Hieroglyphia, Moodswing, Moon Light Poetry, Moonstone, Mussolini's Rabbit, National Poetry Anthology (United Press), Network 2, Never Bury Poetry, New Hope International, New Horizon, New Poems From Portsmouth, New Truth, Nineties Poetry, Nova, Nutshell, Obsessed by Pipework, Odyssey, Of Mouth and More, Ore, Outlaw, Page 84, Paladin, Pam's Poems, Panda, Parasol Post, Peace & Freedom, Pen & Keyboard, Pennine Ink,The People's Poetry, Periaktos, Period Piece & Paperback, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Poetechniciens, Poetic Licence, Poetry Cornwall, Poetry In Nature, Poetry Manchester, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham, Poetry Now, Poetry Scotland, Pomes, Positively Poetry Anthology (New Hope), Premonitions, Psychopoetica, Pulsar, Purple Pastiche, Purple Patch, Ragged Raven Anthology, Reach, Read This, The Reater, Rebel Head Anthology, Rebel Inc., Reflections, Relapse, Retort, Return To Sender Anthology (Headland), Rising, Romantic Outsider, Roundyhouse, Rue Bella, Rustic Rub, Sandpaper, Sandwell Arts Magazine, Scintilla, Second Rapture, Second Time Single Anthology (Poetry Now), Sepia, Sheep's Clothing, Shropshire Unfolded, Skald, Slacker, Sodem, Sol, Solo Survivors, Songs, South, Spectrum, Songs of Sea and Sand Anthology (Pentagraph Press), Spectrum, Spoke, The Spotted Rhubarb, Spouting Forth Anthology, Spume, Start, Stomp, Stop Gap, Stour Vale Life, Success, Suffer This, The Sun Also Rises, Swagmag, Symphony, Symtex & Grimmer, Tandem, Target, Tears in the Fence, Terrible Work, The Third Half, 3x4, Thursdays, Tops, UB40 Anthology (Poetry Now), Unicorn, Verbal, Vigil,Vision, Vision Seeker & Sharer, Virtual Paradise Anthology (Pentagraph Press), Voice & Verse, Voyage, Walking Naked, Westwords, Weyfarers, The White Rose, The Wire, Wits End, Wordshare, Working Titles, Wow Anthology, Writer's Muse, The Writer's Rostrum, Wyrd, The Yonkly, "Z", Zones Anthology.
U.S. MAGAZINES (and others, in brackets) (127) Above & Below, Amber, Anker (Canada), Aural Images, Back Brain Recluse, Beyond The Brink, Blackwater, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Bogg, Bold Print, The Brobdingnagian Times (Eire), The Cafe Review, California Quarterly, Cerberus, Children Churches & Daddies, Cleopatra (Italy), Coal City Review, Coracle, Daybreak, The Dirty Goat, Dreamers From A Stranger's Cafe, Dream Machine, East & West Quarterly, Endless Mountain Review, Feelings, The Fractual Translight Newsletter, The Frieburger (Germany), Glasshouse Electric, Gortday Review, Great Mid-Western Quarterly, Green's Magazine (Canada), Hammers, Heliocentric Net, Helix, Hodge Podge, House of Moonlight, Illya's Honey, Inner Voices, Iodine, In Touch, Iramana (Spain), The Irreversible Man, JAAM (New Zealand), J.V.C. Broadsheet, Knochenmadchew In Pelse Mit Peltsche (Germany), La Carte De Oliver (Argentina), La Pierna Tierna, Late Knocking, Lateral Moves, The Light Tavern, LITE, Litspeak (Germany), Little Brown Poetry, Lone Stars, Mad Poet's Review, Manna, Marsh & Maple (Canada), Medicinal Purposes, Memo, Micropress N.Z. (New Zealand), Micropress Yates (Australia), Miscellaneous, Mobius, Moments in Time, Moongate De Homo Sentiens, Moonstone, My Legacy, NASA, Nomad's Quoir, No Exit, Not One Of Us, Oh! Zone, Omnific, Open Cut, Opus Literary Review, Orphic Lute, Overview Ltd., Parnasus Literary Review, Parnasus of World Poets (India), Paris Atlantic, Parnassus, Phase & Cycle, Poesie (India), Poetic Eloquence, Poetic Page, Poetic Page Opus, Poetic Realm, Peaky Hide, Plowman (Canada), Poet's Fantasy, The Poet's Guild, Poettalk, Potpourri, Prophetic Voices, Puck & Pluck, Purple Patch U.S.A., The Quest (India), Red Dancefloor, Red Owl, River King, Rubber Stones, S-Fest Ltd., Silver Wolf (Eire), Sivullinen (Finland), Spin (New Zealand), Spindrift (Australia), Sulphur & Sawdust, Sulphur River Review, Sunday Apphira Daily News (India), Syncopated City, Talebones, Thirteen, Thorny Locust, Timber Creek Review, Toe Jam, Twilight Ending, Voices Israel (Israel), Waste Anthology, Waterways, Words of Wisdom, Words Three, Writer's World, Yo Mi Mo No (Japan), Z-Miscellaneous, Zig Zag Zygurat, ZZZ Zine.
Not Quite Headlines (Self-published) 1987 The 1970's (Self-published) 1987 Field Manual For Poetry Lovers (K.T.Publications) 1987 87 Poems (Self published) 1988 A Guide to the Statues of this Town (Self-published) 1989 Future Heart Attacks by Appointment Only (Self-published) 1990 Sits Vacant (Self-published) 1991 Nineties Poetry (Thursdays) 1991 Ecstasy (Krax) 1992 A Comparison of Myself with Ivan Blatny (Magic Pen Press) 1992 Skin Print (with Paul Weinman) (Finger Lickin' Good Press, USA) 1992 Skin Print, second edition (Concrete Block In The Face Press, N.Y.) 1993 The Surreal Mind Paints Poetry (Michael Green) 1993 The Complacency of The English (Wonderhorn) 1995 For Reference Only (Poetry Monthly) 1999 Been There (Poetry Monthly) 1999 At The Edge/ Central To Me (with stories by Wayne Dean-Richards) (Spouting Forth Ink) 1999 Crossing The Tamar (Curlew Press) 2001 No Bleating For The Daffodils (New Rainbow Press) 2003 (limited issue of 20 numbered and signed copies) Favourite Tracks (with Brendan Hawthorne - Brendan Hawthorne 2003)
Hastings Poetry (Stand & Deliver) 1995 Hastings Poetry (Stand & Deliver) 1996 Birmingham Poets (Birmingham Libraries) 1996 Spouting Forth in Sandwell (Sandwell Community Libraries) Brendan Hawthorne and Geoff Stevens Showcase (Josiah Mason Media Centre)2002 Poetry Wednesbury On Tour 2002 (New Rainbow Productions)
Ninety Ninety ( two poems on anthology,New Hope International) Under The Beacon (Self-published) 1992 Purple Patch Anthology 2000
Fustun (Poetry Wednesbury Anthology)2002 A Black Country Loff (in dialect, with Brendan Hawthorne)2003
ILLUSTRATIONS The covers of many editions of Purple Patch have been illustrated by me and I have illustrated poetry collections for other presses, as well as providing illustrations for magazines here and in the USA. Exhibitions of artwork locally and in Spain.
POETRY CONVENTIONS I have organised three 3 day poetry conventions at the Barlow Theatre, Langley, near Birmingham, each of which attracted over 100 poets. Another is proposed for June 2004.
READINGS I have read my work at over 80 different venues, a number of them as a regular performer.
Most of my collections can still be purchased direct from me at the address below, Field Manual for Poetry Lovers - £2.00 These prices include postage. Some Geoff Stevens’ poems can be found on the Poetry Wednesbury Poetry Page.
Published by Blue Chrome Publishing -
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My latest book:- available now direct from me at the following address:-
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The Phrenology of Anaglypta - a 108-page book of my poems and drawings at £7.99 plus £1.00 postage (direct from me).