Steve Armstrong

Hi Flying Island bloggers,

I'm a poet living in Newcastle, who works as social worker/counsellor when not writing.

I launched my pocket book What's Left with the latest batch in December. I'll keep this first post brief, it being about my getting things going.

Here is a little bit of what Dimitra Harvey (fine poet, and editor of Mascara Literary Review) had to say about What's Left at the launch -

        "For me, Steve’s poetry attends to what Burnside describes as ‘a new science of belonging’ — one             that, in his words, puts us 'back in the open’, seeks ‘to make us both vulnerable and wondrous again          — to reconnect us’ with the earth. What’s Left is charged with that ecological imperative to dwell in         and with the rest of the world in a new way."

My first collection Broken Ground was published in 2018 by UWAP. For poems from Broken Ground and What's Left and more, go to stevearmstrong-poesis.com/poems-1