Month: January 2024

Featured Image Above: The “Lighthouse”, is an illustration by Kerri Costello, which appears in my new book “Until Eyes Hear Sound” as the introduction image for Chapter 5, Observations, “Until Eyes Hear Sound”. The book contains 10 intriguing Chapters, and Kerri has graciously presented a creative drawing for each Chapter.

I captured these photos about an hour before sunset, and strangely enough, each photo had a diagonal white sunbeam across the images, prompting me to write the ‘Tanka’ below.

Nature’s Lighthouses (a Tanka)

The dazzling sunlight

Ignites the trees’ timid leaves

Into white lanterns

Nature’s neon lighthouses

Showing us the causeway home

Please Note: The 3 cover designs are by, Kerri Costello


Until Eyes Hear Sound, will be available in March

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

I will be running a book stall at the Clunes Book Town Festival in March, one of Australia’s largest all-town book festivals celebrated on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Central Victoria. 

An annual celebration of every aspect of storytelling. Join us on March 23 – 24 2024. Running from dawn to dusk in the historic township of Clunes in Regional Victoria. A two-day festival full of author and artist talks, workshops, and live entertainment for the whole family. Discover the outdoor book bazaar with over a hundred stall holders and immerse yourself in Clunes from cover to cover.

And over at Weekly Prompts, the Wednesday Challenge is the theme: Hobbies. You can visit their wonderful Site by Clicking on >> Here and of course, my “Hobby” is writing poetry

I Refilled My Cracked Inkwell


 

I am tacking toward the unknown 

I will carry pockets full of hope 

And a suitcase packed with books 

I threw away the map years ago   

When I refilled my cracked ink well  

And rehabilitated my Tullawalla Story 

I am leaving my pet rocks behind 

And renovating my vintage quill 

To do the anticipated book signings 

For my rejuvenated “Tullawalla”  

The fascinating ekphrastic collaboration “Perceptions” 

And my new evocative book “Until Eyes Hear Sound”

 

Please Note: The 3 cover designs are by, Kerri Costello


Until Eyes Hear Sound, will be available in March

Tullawalla is Available From

Jaymah Press:https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Ivor Steven: email, ivorrs20@gmail.com

Amazon: search via, ‘Tullawalla by Ivor Steven’

AND
Perceptions is Now Available via:

Amazon: https://amzn.asia/d/4yFHWrT

Jaymah Press: https://www.jaymahpress.com.au/

Lulu Books: https://www.lulu.com/shop/ivor-steven-and-derrick-knight/perceptions/hardcover/product-2pwqe4.html?q=Perceptions+by+Ivor+Steven&page=1&pageSize=4

OR: email me directly for a signed copy – ivorrs20@gmail.com

Ivor Steven (c) January 2024