Tag: Poetry/Australia

“A Poet’s Grotto”, is up at Spillwords Magazine

I am ecstatic that my poem “A Poet’s Grotto”, has been accepted and published in Spillwords Magazine today, and I am very grateful to the editor, Dagmara for selecting my piece … Please go over and visit my poem at Spillwords and if you wish, leave a “💖” for my article, by clicking on this link >> A Poet’s grotto, poetry by Ivor Steven at Spillwords.com

Please Note: featured image above, supplied by Spillwords Press


A Poet’s Grotto

My writer’s studio, is the littered part of my bedroom
A paper tiger’s haven, has become a messy grotto
I am ruefully feeling muddled and befuddled
Pieces of paper and cardboard kites
Scatter the atmosphere like withered autumn leaves
Falling upon my untidy and cluttered archives

Scribbled words are yet to be decoded
Foolscap pages overwritten and eroded
Undefined and unlisted
Out of focus and twisted
Upside down and inside out
Uncategorised and full of self-doubt
My desk, once a dreamy picture postcard
Looks like a moonscape’s junkyard

My poetic writing quill has been the mythological ruler
Showing no regard for my bedroom’s demeanour
I am sleeping covered in my hurdy gurdy verses
It is time to cull the pretentious cosmic curses
Free myself of all unpublished jabberwocky
And let my imagination create a new poetic hard copy










Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

“The Unreachable Horizon”, is in this Week’s Coffee House Writers Magazine

Hello dear readers and followers, the Coffee House Writers Magazine had a 2 week break for the holiday season, but we are back, and I am again writing for “Coffee House Writers” magazine on a fortnightly basis, and my poem “The Unreachable Horizon”, is in this week’s edition of Coffee House Writers Magazine. …
To Read my poem, please click on the link below to visit the article, at Coffee House Writers Magazine.
>> The Unreachable Horizon – Coffee House Writers



Music Video: Poets of the Fall, “Beyond The Horizon






Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

My Poem, “Flowers in the Sky”, was accepted for publication in “Cadence”

Great News. Yesterday I received an acceptance for my submission to Cadence: Life’s Poetic Rhythms, an upcoming anthology (for Spring 2024), from Prolific Pulse Press.

They’re open to “more submissions” until the 31st of January, so I encourage all my poet friends to offer the Editor, Lisa, some joyful poetry. Details via this link >> https://www.prolificpulse.com/

Featured Image Above: A photo collage of my “Flowers in the Sky”










Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)

A poem I wrote in response to Derrick Knight’s article about “Clearing Up After Storm Gerrit” >> https://derrickjknight.com/2024/01/03/clearing-up-after-storm-gerrit/

Please Note: All photos in my post today were originally taken by Derrick Knight, and I have ‘cropped’ the ones below to fit my article





Stalking the Wards (a Tanka)




After the wild storm

Nature wears her old matron’s

Reigning uniform

Staying to stalk the ward’s lawns

And nurse flora back to norm








Ivor Steven (c) January 2024

A Summer Storm at the Cafe





A Summer Storm at the Cafe 


 
 
The second day of the year 

And our volatile summer is here 

Things remain the same in our sphere  


The morning was sunny and warm 

But the day soon transforms 

And the afternoon’s dark storm clouds 

Were our thunderous shrouds 


Frankie cuddles up near  

As Thor’s hammer rings loud and clear 




Video Below, Sigur Ros, performing a 3 minute section of their song “Von”, (which means “Hope”)







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

As The Sun Sinks Down





As The Sun Sinks Down 


 
 
The New Year’s Eve sun 

Is perpetually the finale one 


 

Sadly 

The golden eye sinks down  

Upon our war-torn towns


Sadly

Carrying a worried and worn-out frown

From dressing over the world’s  

Shredded wedding gowns 


And wondering which old clown  

Will wear tomorrow’s battered crown 










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

The New Year is Here, or, Growing Up Too Early. (a Tanka)





The New Year is Here, or, Growing Up Too Early (a Tanka)




“What’s the right season”

The small summer mushroom asks

“Am I too early

Ouch, this midday sun is hot

I need autumn’s cooling clouds”




Vaka, English translation; day before, evening before, eve





Ivor Steven (c) January 1st, 2024

The Summer Book Fair – Barwon Heads, Victoria, Australia

The Summer Book Fair will showcase Indie Authors from across Victoria and help you find new favourite Authors. FREE entry to all visitors. And I will be one of the “Indie Authors” at the Book Fair

Time & Location

14 Jan 2024, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Community Hall, Barwon Heads, 77 Hitchcock Ave, Barwon Heads VIC 3227, Australia

About the Event

The Book Reality Experience presents the Barwon Heads Indie Author Book Fair, which celebrates stories from children’s books through to horror, sci-fi, fantasy and every genre in between. We can’t wait to welcome you to this one-day event filled with Author Exhibits, readings and the opportunity to talk directly with independently published authors… some of whom will become your new favourites. FREE entry to all visitors.

Click here to learn more about the authors in attendance.





A Poem About Me, by Fellow Dome Poet, Emma.

Featured Image Above: A photo of the Geelong Library, affectionately known as “The Dome”

Seven days ago I posted a poem called “Stars”, a piece about “The Dome Poets” Christmas Party ‘brunch’, and where we were each to bring a short poem about our poetry group (Secret), which was then folded and drawn from a hat, and recited by the drawer.
Today I am presenting a poem from that Day, by a fellow ‘Dome Poet’, Emma, and the piece was a Christmas Ode about ‘me’ , and Emma kindly gave me her poem, “The Wordmaster” (attached below) when the party concluded …




A Poem About Me, by Fellow Dome Poet, Emma.


By, Emma Jones, The Dome Poetry Group, 6/12/2023









Ivor Steven (c) December 2023