With the sad and untimely death on 2nd. February, 2012, of Geoff Stevens, an era in small magazine publishing came to an end. For readers and supporters of Purple Patch, the poetry magazine he edited and produced so inimitably and which will now, after 130 issues, cease publication, as well as for the hundreds of poets worldwide he encouraged, advised and published during 25 years as editor, the loss is a double blow. Purple Patch has often been described as a national treasure, but, for me, that accolade will always belong to Geoff.
2012
Poems published in:
4th Dimension 26
2011
Poems published in:
4th Dimension 23,24,25
Moodswing 30
Still Lives, a new e.book
Finding The Heart, a new chapbook, Commended in Indigo Dreams Press Competition
Results in full, here
Sus: Winner in Cinnamon Press Micro-fiction Competition
Poetry reviews published in Ink, Sweat & Tears:
Matthew Sweeney's The Night Post
Andrew Pidoux's Year of the Lion
Roddy Lumsden's Terrific Melancholy
David Cooke's In The Distance
ALSO: David Madden's completion of Charles Dickens's The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
Poetry reviews published in Modern Poetry In Translation:
Byron Leodaris: Until
Kostas Mavroudis: Visit To A Senile Old Man
New link to Ken at: Poets At Work
2010
Poems published in:
Poetry reviews published in Ink, Sweat & Tears:
Helen Mort's a pint for the ghost
Agnieszka Studzinska's Snow Calling
Alan Brownjohn's Ludbrooke - An Introduction
Laura Elliott's Bridge
Harry Owen's Non Dog
Dan Wyke's Waiting for the Sky to Fall
Nigel McLoughlin's Chora
2009
Listening For Light placed 7th in Purple Patch Top Twenty Best Individual Collections
Poet of the week at Rick Lupert's Poetry Super Highway