'STEVE HAS REFRAMED NOISE POLLUTION FOR CONNOISSEURS'

PLYMOUTH’S Steve Spence has done much to give fellow poets an opportunity to shine - and his own latest collection is sure to receive praise.

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The publication Midnight Textures continues the tradition of bricolage, with Steve working with existing materials and spontaneous composition, together with the use of strange juxtaposition.

Steve said his work “combines surrealism with satire and includes commentary on current events, alongside art-related materials and cinematic techniques”.

Plymouth poet Patrick Holden put it this way: “Steve has reframed noise pollution for the connoisseur.”

Midnight Textures, published by Aquifer books, based in Wales, is Steve's eighth collection, and features such poems as An Exit Permit, Self-Assembly, Secrets of a Scorpion Swallower and Gnarled and Knotty.

It follows last year’s Listening In, the second book Steve had published by Derbyshire-based The Red Ceiling Press following 2021's Eat Here, Get Gas & Worms.