Geoff Stevens has been Editor of Purple Patch poetry magazine for 31 years. The Guardian called it “a National treasure”. Over 3,000 of his poems have appeared in 300 U.K. magazine titles and 150 magazines from 16 other countries and many more have been rejected. He has also read his work on tape, CD, video and DVD. He has read  at over one hundred U.K. venues as well as organising regular monthly poetry readings and four National Poetry Conventions.

Comments on his poetry include:

“powerfull and assured use of language, that is both playful and impressiveStella Stocker
“disturbing” - reviewer, South Magazine
“gentle and soothing” - Roshan Doug
“just enough growl and tenderness” - Ronnie Goodyer
“a touch lugubrious but totally brilliant” - Greg Stokes (Kate’s Hill Press)
“Wendy Cope would kill for some of his one-liners” - Dr.Paul McDonald (Wolverhampton University)
“a seer poet who can surely enliven our mundane days” - Joyce Carbone (U.S. poet/editor)
“how can one be so prolific and so consistently good” - Sam Smith (Editor, The Journal)
“we in the Colonies are reaffirmed in our praise of an excellent writer” - Lynda S.Silva (in Poetry Forum, USA)
“each (poem) has a life after the last line is read” - Michael Bangerter (in NHI Review)