Inside Stories: Poems for a Troubled Age

Compassionate, unflinching, and musically precise, Steve Logan’s poems give voice to lives too often overlooked. He pays homage to the soul’s endurance, and makes ordinary lives unforgettable. Inside Stories offers us a quiet blaze of compassion: poems that sing with truth.

-Kate Rhodes, novelist and poet

Slipping between the observer and the observed, these poems are portraits where the painter seeks the subject’s ‘soul’. We view apparitions through a verbal mist, then, as if illumined by a shaft of sunlight, the subject comes alive with a vivid image or a striking turn of phrase.

Steve Logan’s concern is our relationship with our spiritual nature. But predominantly his thoughts stay nearer home: his South Wales upbringing, the people he knew then and now, and the twists and turns that made him the accomplished ‘song-poet’ he is today.

-Philip Ward, author and critic